The Singapore financial market is keenly awaiting Monday’s Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) by the MAS. This statement will include guidance on where the value of SGD will be for about six months. Note that this scheduled release is advanced, possibly by a few weeks as this semi-annual MPS is always in April and October. USDSGD, […]
The Resilience Budget will dedicate $48 billion to help Singaporeans deal with the impact of COVID-19 with a focus on saving jobs, protecting workers and supporting households. If you had missed DPM and Finance Minister’s Heng Swee Keat’s Ministerial Statement earlier this afternoon, here’s a summary of the cash payouts that you can potentially receive. […]
To say that the stock markets have been volatile against the evolving global COVID-19 situation is an understatement. As of that is not enough, the failure of OPEC talks over the weekend of 7-8 March and subsequent oil price drops have added fuel to fire (pun intended). Moves of more than 4% in the S&P500 […]
The COVID-19 situation has riled people and businesses, and it seems that yesterday, global stock markets finally showed its fears, with the growing spread of the virus across countries, increased deaths and large clusters in Europe, and fears in the US. The US indices fell more than 3%, the Dow Jones was down more than […]
Every February, the Singapore Department of Statistics releases the Key Household Income Trends. We had that release today, 20 February 2020. A common response to this report is that of feeling rather underwhelmed but yet without surprise. All employees know that increments are incremental. Even then, 2019 household income growth was yet a shade weaker […]
Just as Budget 2020 had short-term, midterm and long-term implications, we can also adjust our personal finances across these time periods to better prepare for our financial future. In the short term, think about how you can better manage your cash flows. With the goodies provided by the Care and Support package that can amount […]
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