In learning how to invest your money in Singapore as a beginner, it is important to keep a tab on what can potentially go wrong with an investment. An investment is meant to provide a return while at the same time ensuring a healthy preservation of capital. However, sometimes we do not get the promised […]
Imagine you are a turtle. After much searching, you found a good dry tree trunk for you to bask in the sun. When you are enjoying the heat (given that turtles are cold blooded), another turtle approaches and wishes to use your tree trunk. Will you agree and will you share? Why should the turtle […]
To learn how to invest in Singapore for beginners, we always make the effort to analyse weekly data and find out if there are any new economic trends that the data is trying to tell us. Over the last week, we had two data releases, namely the July Import and Export price indices as well […]
There have been much discussion about the inflation in Singapore, and you can check out the latest inflation number from our consumer price index july 2019 update. While, inflation is a number widely reported in the press, not many people really know what inflation is and its implication for investors. In order to know how […]
Consumer Price Index or CPI for short is designed to measure the average price changes in a fixed basket of goods and services commonly purchased by resident households over time. The CPI is a monthly data release that is reported over last year’s data point. There are a few types of CPI data that the […]
Co-working spaces are all the rage now. From WeWork’s leasing of Capitaland Commercial Trust’s HSBC Tower, to Great Room’s announcement of its fourth site in the iconic Raffles Hotel, office tenants are now spoilt for choices. While we do not have data releases of co working supply in the market, we know that co working […]
It comes as no surprise that the both the commercial property price and rental index have been rising. Commercial property prices had bottomed out in 2Q of 2017 and have continued its upward climb in 2Q19. The price index came in at 144.4 for 2Q19, which is 6.49% higher than 1Q18’s number of 133.1. We […]