Fixed Deposit (FD) rates of banks in Malaysia (November 09)
In August, I compiled a list of Fixed Deposit rates in Malaysia HERE. Here’s the update for the month of November 2009. Bank 1 month 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months Affin Bank 2.00 2.10 2.20 2.30 2.50 Alliance Bank 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.50 AmBank 2.00 2.10 2.20 2.20 2.50 Bangkok Bank [...]
Budget 2010 Real Property Gains Tax (RPGT)
Note: this post was written purely based on my personal opinions. The Malaysia government has recently announced Budget 2010. To be honest, there are not much good news for this time’s budget. But whether there’s bad news or not, it is really up to you to decide. Anyway, for this post, I will talk about [...]
Fixed Deposit (FD) rates of banks in Malaysia (August 09)
In March, I wrote a post on the Fixed Deposit rates of the major banks in Malaysia HERE. Not much change since then. Here’s the update for the month of August 2009. Bank 1 month 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months Affin Bank 2.00 2.10 2.20 2.30 2.50 Alliance Bank 2.00 2.00 2.00 [...]
Why is Malaysia’s property market not suffering from recession?
Some of my friends have been on the lookout for new and old properties for the past few months, hoping that the price of the property market would drop due to the recession. Unfortunately, nearly all of them came back to me and voiced out their disappointment. Rather than seeing a price drop, they are [...]
Is Malaysia’s stock market recovering?
Over the past few weeks, our Malaysia’s stock market has seen a drastic rebound from the 800 – 900 range to nearly 950 (as of Friday, 11th April 2009). Is this the sign of more good things to come? Is our stock market staging a fierce come back after so many months of below-par performance? [...]