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    Quote Originally Posted by richwang
    Stay away from the market in short term. Some are prodicting a 20%-30% correction for emerging market. Funds are moving away from Singapore to US. Emerging market ETF redemption is very high. USD is technically strenging, meaning money is going back to US.

    The net cash flow is negtive for this year so far. Let's hope it is as short as 2007, not as 2008.

    http://www.economist.com/node/181188...TOKEN=59168553

    Better be safe.

    Thanks,
    Richard
    if 20% - 30% of the fund move away to the US, what would happen to SG stock and property?

    stock drop to 2500 points and property 10% reduction from current price?

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    That's an opportunity to buy in

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    Quote Originally Posted by land118
    Golden hill park condo, mei hwan drive, dist 20, FH, from side gate, just cross traffic light, Lorong Chuan circle line MRT station, owners asking about $1200-$1300psf..., 390 units by CDL, Completed in 2004. Tis is better than 99LH Scala, Aussie school, 200m away
    scala comes with smaller unit size probably thats the reason?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Regulators
    I have not taken mrt in ages, with or without mrt no difference in my life. A taxi is a must in case my car breaks down
    you should try and be pissed off.


    non peak hours still bearable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by richwang

    http://www.economist.com/node/181188...TOKEN=59168553



    Emerging markets

    Feb 10th 2011 | NEW YORK | from PRINT EDITION


    THE turmoil in Egypt marks a turning-point for that country’s politics. Might it also be a turning-point for investment in emerging markets? Hungry for yield as the financial crisis abated, investors flocked to emerging markets in the past two years, pushing equity inflows to record levels (see chart). They were handsomely rewarded, with the MSCI Emerging Markets index (MSCI EM) returning 79% in 2009 and 19% in 2010, compared with 31% and 12% for shares globally.
    In the week to February 2nd, however, emerging-market equity funds shed $7 billion, or 1% of their total assets, as events boiled over in Cairo. According to EPFR, which tracks such flows, this was the third-largest withdrawal on record, and the first of any size since the crisis. Redemptions from Asia-focused funds (excluding Japan) hit a three-year high. In the past week or so, hedge funds and options traders have dramatically increased their bets against developing countries, says an industry consultant. “Everyone’s looking to be better positioned in case the shit hits the fan,” says a hedge-fund manager. The outflows continued this week, though at a less dramatic pace.
    As a relatively small market, Egypt alone is unlikely to trigger sustained selling. The bigger worry is that unrest spreads through the region, threatening Israel’s security or world oil supplies, and thus a fragile global recovery. But even if that does not happen, the upheaval may have given a nudge to investors already on the verge of leaving emerging markets.
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    One reason to look elsewhere is that Western economies’ prospects look sunnier than they did a few months ago. American consumer confidence has rebounded more quickly than expected, for instance. Much of the money that has come out of emerging economies has gone straight into developed markets, in what Michael Hartnett at Bank of America Merrill Lynch has dubbed the “Great Rotation”. Rich-world stockmarkets may also be the big beneficiaries of reallocation by fixed-income investors who believe that the bull run in bonds is over, says Nick Smithie of UBS.
    Another reason to question emerging markets is rising inflation. This is most visible in the spiralling cost of food: The Economist’s commodity food-price index jumped by more than 6% in January. This matters more in emerging economies such as China and India, where food eats up a quarter of consumer spending, than in, say, Europe, where it accounts for half that.
    Central banks are reacting to the inflation threat: on February 8th China joined Indonesia, Brazil and India in raising interest rates this year. Expectations of higher rates lures in foreign-exchange traders: a number of Asian currencies reached multi-year highs this week. But equity investors worry that officials will apply the brakes too hard, causing a crunching slowdown and hurting corporate profits. Some fret that policymakers will respond to higher prices not with free-market reforms but with subsidies and price controls, as so often in the past.
    These worries predate the ructions in the Arab world. Although significant fund outflows started only in late January, the MSCI EM has lagged behind rich-country indices since last autumn. It is down by 2% this year. How long that underperformance continues will partly depend on whether the recent big outflows mark the start of a sustained retreat, as did the last sudden exodus, in January 2008, or a blip, like the one before that, in March 2007.
    Optimists point to emerging markets’ much-improved fiscal health (in contrast to that of advanced economies), their maturing infrastructure and their burgeoning middle classes. They say valuation is another reason to keep faith. Emerging-market shares trade at roughly twice book value, near their long-term average and far below the five times book at which Japanese shares peaked in 1989 or the seven times dotcom shares reached in 2000. On a forward price-earnings basis they are slightly below the ten-year average and at a 16% discount to shares in developed markets. This gap does not look too narrow.
    Even the optimists are becoming more discerning, though. Shan Lan of Deutsche Bank has noticed a big switch out of broad emerging-market funds into country-specific ones as investors do more homework. Funds focused on China, Indonesia and Turkey have seen net redemptions this year; those dedicated to Russia, a beneficiary of high oil prices, have bulged. Brazil is a more mixed bag: it has attracted net inflows this year but its stockmarket has fallen by more than the emerging-market average. You might even call it decoupling.
    What do you think is the impact on STI and Hang Seng? How about commodities?

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    Quote Originally Posted by francophile
    This is a great thread and exactly what I was looking for for my next investment!let's start naming these projects and also those near upcoming stations
    Like to share this with the forumers.

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