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    Economic News

    Congratulations to the Saudi for being so successful in the fire sales that they need only to pay a mere US$7 billion for 50% of the stake of RAPID when it is supposedly worth US$27 billions. Obviously they wanted the deal very much, it was MY who walked away because of the unfavorable terms as...
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    Economic News

    Sorry to disappoint you, that earlier news about Aramco's withdrawal from investing in MY was real and not a fake report, no smoke without fire. Malaysian Second Finance Minister Johari Abdul Ghani actually confirmed it. He was quoted saying " The possibility of having Aramco as a partner to...
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    Property News

    Successful Singaporeans make SG dollars in SG and lots of it. However some unsuccessful Singaporeans who had failed in competitive SG came over to MY try their luck here. You are probably just one of them, nothing to be proud of. Really successful people don't go around bragging over and over...
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    Economic News

    Cost of living Index 2107 for Singapore is ranked at 10 out of 121 countries. https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_by_country.jsp Cost of living Index 2017 for Malaysia is ranked at 84 out of 121 countries. So the guy from JB working in SG, drawing his salary in S$, can afford to...
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    Economic News

    City Square is in a prime and a very ideal location in JB. And if this mall also fail to make it, then the rest will probably be in worse fate. However, many shops within City Square had opened and closed within a short period of time just because they are unable to get enough business. Big...
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    Property News

    For every success story, there will always another few failures to match otherwise the whole world will be full of Li ka Shings and Bill Gates, then who will drive the buses and who will teach the children in schools? Success is not how many cars you drive, how many properties you own and when...
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    Economic News

    For those in JB, can live or cannot live depends on where you are working. In Johor, the general working population can be roughly divided into 2 groups. One group go over to SG to work, doing a wide variety of jobs from cleaners to engineers, earning S$ every month. Another group stay put...
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    Economic News

    Aeon Big is shutting down 3 of its Hypermarkets in MY by next month. Their reason : "consolidating its hypermarket chain and focusing on a single business format." Can also read as : Poor business so no choice have to shut some stores to cut expenses. Another reason : "implementation of...
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    Economic News

    Not sure what you mean by "benefit" and "good" but if you were to ask any regular Johorean who is working and living in Johor, they will tell you that Johor is definitely getting more and more developed but everything else is more and more expensive, in fact, far too expensive for many things.
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    Economic News

    Usually such IPOs are not meant for small-time investors whereby a single tranche can be in US$ millions. However, mega IPO don't usually means mega profits, just look at Facebook, one of the biggest IPOs in technology and internet history, the share price fell on opening and crashed more than...
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    Economic News

    Yah, wait for the mammoth Aramco IPO la, sure can make some money much faster than investing in properties.
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    Property News

    Commercial activities are not picking but actually failing in many places, at least for the time being. Some hard facts to share here. Many shops, just newly renovated and opened for business for a brief 2 years had to be shuttled due to poor businesses. Imaging all the money spent on...
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    Economic News

    So you are suggesting that in time to come, JB will be crowded with foreigners, just like Singapore now? And those people who had invested a new home in JB, who were thinking of moving away from that maddening crowd are actually moving back to be neighbors to the same maddening crowd? If not...
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    Economic News

    You're quite right about the rich Chinese. Just today, it is reported that MY's national car Proton is now in final negotiation with the Chinese automaker Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd for partnership, (read major capital injection). And if the deal gets through, it may be renamed GeelyTon...
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    Economic News

    What if suddenly, all your new neighbors in JB, every direction you look from your balcony are mostly Mainland Chinese, every shopping mall you go are filled with Mainland Chinese, ........
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    Economic News

    Malaysia's decade-old push for Mid-East investments stumbles The government’s decade-old plan to attract investors from the Middle East is not playing out well, according to a report in the Straits Times of Singapore today. Several major middle eastern investors, who had earlier indicated...
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    Exchange Rates for RM

    For S$3K and above, can get 3.135 in JB
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    Property News

    Double the shopping malls and shopping streets may not necessarily need to double the shoppers but definitely and most importantly require to double the spending to sustain, no two ways to it. The planners, the developers, the business owners should all know this very well.
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    Property News

    Oh yes, so among the new shops, they must have exclusive boutiques and showrooms like Chanel, Prada, LV, Gucci, Burberry, Versace, Dior, Audemars Piquet, Patek Philippe, Rolex, etc. to cater the wealthy Chinese and Malaysians. And not forgetting to have a Hermes shop here too so that the famous...
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    Property News

    10 impressive shopping malls will need another hundred of restaurants and eateries plus another thousands of shops offering an array of merchandise and services and not forgetting, they'll need another tens of thousands of shoppers out to spend another hundreds of thousands of RM everyday. If...
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