Here is a quick review of the Singapore stock market. The STI index showed that a double bottom pattern has form. This signals potential uptrend for the general stock market under SGX. While the STI generally lacks S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial, NASQAD, it had finally emerge from the doom and start showing some signs of life. Below is a weekly chart of STI index. Why has the Singapore stock market lagging behind the US market? Even though the region had a better control of the Covid-19 situation except Indonesia and Philippines, the regional stock market had not perform as good as the American counter part. Can we say that the US market is over bought? The answer is not so easy. There are a lot of differences in the composition of the companies. The Tech sector which is a big part of US market has been doing extremely well during this pandemic.
This is an article that I read on 26th September 2012. It has been over a year now and I suddenly remembered. I'd posted this last year with some other predictions from CNBC etc. During then, I was very fascinated listening to these experts. They are so confident and so logical. I always admire their ability to "read" the market and manage hundreds of millions of dollars of other people's money. So of them managed billions of dollars. Then I thought what if they ever go wrong? Won't they lose a lot of money? So, I think it would have been interesting to remember what they said and then we verify later. On 26th September, the S&P 500 index closed at 1433.32. One year went on and it went up another 19% from there. Below is S&P 500 over last one and a half year. As we can see, the market has still been a bull. Over the one year period, the S&P 500 index did correct itself. However, it was a <6 20="" 25="" advice=""