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Market Daily Report: Bursa Malaysia Ends Lower On Profit-taking, Earthquake In Myanmar Shakes Investor Sentiment

KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 (Bernama) -- Bursa Malaysia closed lower today on profit-taking after a strong three-day rally, and investor sentiment was further shaken in the late afternoon session following news of an earthquake in Myanmar with tremors felt in neighbouring Thailand, said Rakuten Trade Sdn Bhd equity research vice-president Thong Pak Leng. At 5 pm, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) slid 1.44 per cent or 22.08 points to 1,513.65, its intraday low, from Thursday’s close of 1,535.73. The benchmark index opened 4.16 points lower at 1,531.57 and hit an intraday high of 1,533.52 during the midday session.  On the broader market, decliners outpaced gainers 563 to 395, while 408 counters were unchanged, 1,106 untraded, and 133 suspended.   Turnover slipped to 2.25 billion units valued at RM2.13 billion from 2.52 billion units worth RM2.41 billion on Thursday. 

Living With Student Loan

Nowadays, most fresh graduates will be burden with debts, even the moment they stepped in the varsity world. I'm quite positive that those not coming from a well to do family will need to get student loan or education loan. Students from Malaysia can apply for this student loan or education loan from a government body, PTPTN. When I graduated three years ago, I directly have to start my payment for the education loan. The terms and conditions of the loan is to start the payment 6 months after I graduated. This applies to all the university students getting student loan from this PTPTN - which means that we have to get a job within 6 months after graduated. Well, for those getting jobs within the first six months after graduation, how many of them are actually paying back their student loan? I believe majority of them are not paying or just paid maybe once or twice the installment. Not that I want to criticize or condemn anyone, but I do believe we need to pay back this student loa...

Money

It's kind of ironic in our life that when we are young, we will wish that we are grown up but when we are grown up, we will be wishing that we are still the young and innocent guys or gals that we used to be. A lot of this was actually caused by one thing.....money. Money is the root of all evil and problems. We must not forget, we are living in the materialistic world no matter how much we would like to deny. Money, can be a great servant if we use it properly while a the same time, it can be an evil master. So, what is money to us? Do we treat it as our master or our slave? How do we know whether we are the money master or the slave? If we are the master, surely it is the money who work for us while if we were the to be a slave to somebody, we would be sweating to please the master. There is no two way about it. For the money case, it is very obvious that if we are the money master, we would be investing the money, so that in one way, the money will earn more money for us, whil...

Realm of Wealth

Money......what is the value of money for us? Some of us believe that money is everything while the others think otherwise. We use money to but stuff - food, clothes, transportation etc. Money seems to be a very important element in our life that everyone sweating day and night just to meet the daily needs. We are living in a world where money seems to be everything - which is quite obvious why I name this blog Realm of Wealth . I was thinking whether to name the blog Realm of Money or Realm of Wealth, but decided on the latter one. The main reason I choose wealth over money is because wealth is made up of an abundance of valuable material possessions or resources, while money is just money. I want to blog more on money related stuff, while at the same time not only money, so wealth is more suitable. This blog will have information based on my perception, which can be right or wrong, but to voice out is the process of learning, which will happen all the time.