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Peter_Pan Supreme	01-Oct-2013 23:28        Peter_Pan About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Flexible   Mood: Yells: "did you order dunkin' donuts"
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	明 天 带 你 去 卖 缸 楼 吃 早 餐 !
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Isolator Supreme	01-Oct-2013 23:23        Isolator About Contact  Quote this Post!   Mood: Yells: "STI is hard landing to below 2000..."
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Huat la.. My Dow...
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Peter_Pan Supreme	01-Oct-2013 19:22        Peter_Pan About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Flexible   Mood: Yells: "did you order dunkin' donuts"
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Still waiting to pick 榴 莲
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Oldbird Senior	01-Oct-2013 19:14        Oldbird About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Wayang wayang by Ang Moh...will get over in days ..or 11 hours of 17 oct. Octavia      ( Date: 01-Oct-2013 16:10) Posted: With the House not even voting on a continuing resolution to fund the government, a shutdown is now a reality. This implies some 800,000 federal employees will stay at home this morning since they are no longer getting paid. The government shutdown also prevents any federal agency from committing any payments in the future. Some exception is allowed for federal employees who are involved in security such as air traffic controllers etc. What does a shutdown imply for the economy and financial markets: 15 bps drag on fourth quarter GDP for every week of shutdown. Estimations are around at least US$300 million a day in lost economic output at the start and the impact is likely to grow over time as skittish consumers and businesses stay on the sidelines. Data releases will be delayed including non-farm payrolls (large implications for volatility trading) Data collection will also be affected and therefore future data may be less reliable when it does get released. What to look out for next: October 17th - the Treasury continues to manage cash using 'extraordinary measures' to keep funding existing programs. Even with these in place the debt limit will be reached 'no later than October 17th' according to Secretary Lew. November 1st - the specific date when the treasury runs out of cash is an area of uncertainty as revenue and expenditure can be volatile. The US may be able to stretch the extraordinary measures to instruct the Fed to make some payments (such as coupon and principal) which may push the actual date the Treasury runs out of cash to early November. At this point the debt ceiling is reached. Market Impact - while there has not been a government shutdown in the past 17 years, there have been 8 in the past 30 years, with most lasting just 1-3 days. Short term government shut-down tends to have limited long term impact on credit markets assuming they last at most a week or so.
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gufeng88 Senior	01-Oct-2013 19:02        gufeng88 About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Short sell orders executed on 01 October 2013   http://www.sgx.com/wps/wcm/connect/sgx_en/home/market_info/short_sale/short_sale_daily/DailyShortSell20131001.txt
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bishan22 Elite	01-Oct-2013 16:34        bishan22 About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Dow future is green. Lets see whether it will pull up the situation. Good luck.
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ruready Master	01-Oct-2013 16:33        ruready About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 1  Alert Admin	Look like short covering,,,,,just now buy a broking firm sell also a broking ,,,,,more like short covering,,,,,,
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ruready Master	01-Oct-2013 16:28        ruready About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Take profit if got profit ,,,,Mai tu liao,,,,,,wait for tomorrow see how,,,,still got chance to buy
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Octavia Elite	01-Oct-2013 16:10        Octavia About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Flexible   Mood:
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	With the House not even voting on a continuing resolution to fund the government, a shutdown is now a reality. This implies some 800,000 federal employees will stay at home this morning since they are no longer getting paid. The government shutdown also prevents any federal agency from committing any payments in the future. Some exception is allowed for federal employees who are involved in security such as air traffic controllers etc. What does a shutdown imply for the economy and financial markets: 15 bps drag on fourth quarter GDP for every week of shutdown. Estimations are around at least US$300 million a day in lost economic output at the start and the impact is likely to grow over time as skittish consumers and businesses stay on the sidelines. Data releases will be delayed including non-farm payrolls (large implications for volatility trading) Data collection will also be affected and therefore future data may be less reliable when it does get released. What to look out for next: October 17th - the Treasury continues to manage cash using 'extraordinary measures' to keep funding existing programs. Even with these in place the debt limit will be reached 'no later than October 17th' according to Secretary Lew. November 1st - the specific date when the treasury runs out of cash is an area of uncertainty as revenue and expenditure can be volatile. The US may be able to stretch the extraordinary measures to instruct the Fed to make some payments (such as coupon and principal) which may push the actual date the Treasury runs out of cash to early November. At this point the debt ceiling is reached. Market Impact - while there has not been a government shutdown in the past 17 years, there have been 8 in the past 30 years, with most lasting just 1-3 days. Short term government shut-down tends to have limited long term impact on credit markets assuming they last at most a week or so.
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WanSiTong Master	01-Oct-2013 16:01        WanSiTong About Contact  Quote this Post!   Mood:
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Government Shutdown Begins as Deadlocked Congress Flails By Roxana Tiron, Richard Rubin & Kathleen Hunter - Oct 1, 2013 2:21 PM GMT+0800 The U.S. government began its first partial shutdown in 17 years, idling as many as 800,000 federal employees, closing national parks and halting some services after Congress failed to break a partisan deadlock by a midnight deadline. Congressional leaders have scheduled no further negotiations on spending legislation, raising concerns among some lawmakers that the shutdown could bleed into the more consequential fight over how to raise the U.S. debt limit to avoid a first-ever default after Oct. 17. Chances of a last-minute deal -- seen so often in past fiscal fights -- evaporated shortly before midnight as the House stood firm on its call to delay major parts of President Barack Obama?s health-care law for a year. Senate Democrats were equally firm in refusing to concede and planned a morning vote to reject the House?s call for formal talks. ?It is embarrassing that these people who were elected to represent the country are representing the Tea Party,? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said after midnight. ?This is an unnecessary blow to America.? House Speaker John Boehner, speaking after 1 a.m. in Washington, called on Senate Democrats to come to the negotiating table. ?Let?s resolve our differences,? Boehner, an Ohio Republican told reporters. ?The House has voted to keep the government open, but we also want basic fairness for all Americans under Obamacare.?
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ruready Master	01-Oct-2013 15:35        ruready About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Hoot ah
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ruready Master	01-Oct-2013 14:55        ruready About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	3pm games start again
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ruready Master	01-Oct-2013 13:44        ruready About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Market so far so good, cut already cut so no much selling pressure,look like attractive again,,,,,,look like seller all waiting to sell at highest price,,,,,,,,,may be bargain hunting time coming?????any advice from sifu
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Peter_Pan Supreme	01-Oct-2013 12:20        Peter_Pan About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Flexible   Mood: Yells: "did you order dunkin' donuts"
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	looks like US markets will resume upside movement though may not be much but who knows
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ruready Master	01-Oct-2013 12:18        ruready About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Japan raise tax,,,,,,japanarket reverse up
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teeth53 Supreme	01-Oct-2013 12:13        teeth53 About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Flexible   Mood: Yells: "don't learn through life, learn to grow with life "
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	12:07: That concludes this evening's liveblog. Please check back with CNBC.com throughout the evening for further updates on the U.S. government shutdown. 12:06: The Senate plans to take up the House's latest motions at 9:30 a.m. ET Tuesday. S'pore time - adios...morning lohh (Wed) teeth53      ( Date: 01-Oct-2013 12:06) Posted: 12:02: Dow futures still up 26 points. Meanwhile, networks have shifted from counting down to the shutdown, to counting up to mark how long the shutdown has lasted! 12:00: And there you have it (no showdown, it a  shutdown) teeth53      ( Date: 01-Oct-2013 11:56) Posted: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2013/m-13-24.pdf
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ruready Master	01-Oct-2013 12:12        ruready About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Shut down shout down but马 照 跑 ， 舞 照 跳 ， 不 是 世 界 末 日 ， also buy opportunity if you pocket deeeeep
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eurekaw Master	01-Oct-2013 12:08        eurekaw About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Kelvin Han, Chief Trainer V3Go, is a bankrupt but is still living like a king now... Are bankruptcy laws fool proof? lol eurekaw      ( Date: 01-Oct-2013 11:39) Posted: Just came across this....fyi   ADDITIONAL CHARGES: Han could not repay the $718,000 he lost and was declared a bankrupt on Jan 19 last year. Even after that, he got involved in three firms. For this, he was jailed for another month. TRAINING firm Zone Financial was set up to teach people how to trade futures contracts and indexes. But it acted as a fund manager between May 2004 and August 2006, collecting nearly $4 million as personal loans from 32 people. Its managing director, Kelvin Han How Yong, 28, was yesterday jailed for five months after pleading guilty to allowing the firm to engage in fund management without a capital markets services licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Han would persuade participants at his training sessions to invest in a fund - called Kelvin's Fund - for periods ranging from a few weeks to six months. The money was used to trade futures contracts and indexes and he promised his clients returns of 1 per cent to 5 per cent per month, depending on the amount they put in. By the time he resigned as managing director in August 2006, he had lost about $718,000. Two months later, the Commercial Affairs Department began investigations after several people reported to the police that Han had cheated them into investing various sums of money. Han could not repay the money lost and was declared a bankrupt on Jan 19 last year. He has yet to make any restitution of the $718,000 he lost while the remainder of the sum invested has been returned to the investors. Even as a bankrupt, Han was not done yet. Although bankrupts are not allowed to engage in the management of companies without the permission of the court or the Official Assignee, Han got involved in three firms almost immediately. For this, he was jailed for another month. The court heard that Han had asked his father, Mr Han Koon Siong, to set up event management firm Cronwell in November 2006 with a paid-up capital of $1. Between January and August last year, he took charge of the firm and managed it. Two other charges of acting as a director of AOL Capital and Rimson Investments last year were considered by the judge when deciding on the sentence. Zone Financial was also fined $20,000 for offering fund management services without the appropriate licence. The firm has since become inactive. The MAS said there are 110 firms holding capital markets services licences.
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teeth53 Supreme	01-Oct-2013 12:06        teeth53 About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Flexible   Mood: Yells: "don't learn through life, learn to grow with life "
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	12:02: Dow futures still up 26 points. Meanwhile, networks have shifted from counting down to the shutdown, to counting up to mark how long the shutdown has lasted! 12:00: And there you have it (no showdown, it a  shutdown) teeth53      ( Date: 01-Oct-2013 11:56) Posted: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2013/m-13-24.pdf
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ruready Master	01-Oct-2013 12:01        ruready About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Bloomberg TV also shut down
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