The third quarter of 2018 has been a struggle as the global market is plagued with escalating tit-for-tat trade dispute between the two economic powerhouses, United States and China. And just this week, the US Federal Reserve has raised the interest rates by 25 basis points, bringing it to 2.25%. In the local context, Dairy Farm International has replaced Starhub as STI constituent with...

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Do you sometimes find yourself coming up short of hitting the minimum monthly spending requirement for your credit card? If so, you might have been missing out on earning the credit card rebate and/or interest from your savings account.  Following from the previous discussion on Active Savings Accounts, the interest received from fulfilling the credit card spending criterion can be rather rewarding. For example, charging...

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Last year, I have read Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, a renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. The book sheds light on the working systems of the human mind and how it can be susceptible to cognitive biases, fallacies and illusions.  The title was first introduced to me during my Managerial Economics lecture when the Professor fervently recommended it...

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