（吉隆坡）IOI集團（IOICORP,1961,主板種植組）和IOI產業（IOIPROP,1635,主板產業組）因涉及“重大企業計劃”，下週暫停交易兩個交易日，讓謠傳多時的IOI產業私有化消息“死灰復燃”。
IOI集團持有IOI產業的76%股權，去年多次傳出IOI產業私有化消息，但已被IOI集團否認。
IOI產業去年2月推出附加股計劃，籌募9億2300萬令吉資金，瑞士信貸研究預估，附加股計劃若認購率不足，將促使IOI集團啟動私有化行動，惟最後出現超額認購而澆熄市場謠言。
瑞士信貸研究以IOI集團持IOI產業76%股權估算，當時收購價格值得每股4令吉85仙，總收購額或達11億令吉。
瑞士信貸研究指出，私有化IOI產業將改善IOI集團業績，估計為截至2010年6月30日止財政年，帶來額外淨利約4%。
Across the entire media and entertainment industry, new digital technologies and consumer demands for continuous access to high quality content is challenging traditional ways of doing business. This does not mean that traditional content and media are dead. Far from it. But there's no denying the pace of change.
In a recent survey conducted for the Australasian Media & Broadcasting Congress, there was a strong consensus amongst attendees that the main sources of revenue growth in the future are multi-platform distribution, short form video, social media / user-generated content, and advertising. It was also believed that most major media companies will pursue a "multi-screen" distribution strategy in the next 5 years, which includes television, online and mobile delivery.
Media executives know which capabilities they need to take advantage of in this new market, but many have a false sense of their current capabilities. Companies need to implement new digital technologies or be left behind.
Our money system is not what we have been led to believe.
The creation of money has been "privatized," or taken over by a private money cartel.
Except for coins, all of our money is now created as loans advanced by private banking institutions — including the private Federal Reserve.
Banks create the principal but not the interest to service their loans.
To find the interest, new loans must continually be taken out, expanding the money supply, inflating prices — and robbing you of the value of your money.
Not only is virtually the entire money supply created privately by banks, but a mere handful of very big banks is responsible for a massive investment scheme known as "derivatives," which now tallies in at hundreds of trillions of dollars.
The banking system has been contrived so that these big banks always get bailed out by the taxpayers from their risky ventures, but the scheme has reached its mathematical limits.
There isn't enough money in the entire global economy to bail out the banks from a massive derivatives default today.
When the investors realize that the "insurance" against catastrophe that they have purchased in the form of derivatives is worthless, they are liable to jump ship and bring the whole shaky edifice crashing down.
Web of Debt unravels the deceptions in our money scheme and presents a crystal clear picture of the financial abyss towards which we are heading.
Then it explores a workable alternative, one that was tested in colonial America and is grounded in the best of American economic thought, including the writings of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln.
If you care about financial security, your own or the nation's, you should read this book.
Not knowing about money, not what it is but what it can do for you, is probably the biggest and most critical gap in knowledge today.
Education is, without question, a key to making it in the world. But after getting your academic and professional education, who is really prepared with the necessary financial education?
Most people have never had any formal exposure to the fundamentals of this critical area of learning. How do you pick it up in later life? How can you be confident about what you gather in bits and pieces along the way?
Is the love of money the root of all evil? Or, is it the ignorance of money?
What did you learn about money in school?
Have you ever wondered why our school systems do not teach us much—if anything—about money?
Is the lack of financial education in our schools simply an oversight by our educational leaders?
Or is it part of a larger conspiracy?
Regardless, whether we are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, child or adult, retired or working, we all use money. Like it or not, money has a tremendous impact on our lives in today's world.
The jobs picture is likely to get worse before it gets better. Among the keys to an early end to the recession are rapid deployment of stimulus money from the incoming Obama administration and improved psychology about the economy.
The stimulus is important because the recession is worsening with no other catalysts to jumpstart the economy, said Philippa Dunne of the Liscio Report, an economic newsletter. As important is maintaining the optimism that the repairs are being made. If that falters, she said, 2009 could become difficult both for the economy and investors.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/market-dispatches-010909.aspx
You already own your most valuable asset - but what do you think it is?
Actually - you think with it - it's your mind.
Consider what an asset is. An asset is something you have that can make you money.
Just as you might invest in other assets - you can invest in your mind. But what's the best way?
The price to reach dad's goal, starting from nothing, is actually measured in rich dad's 3 E's:
Education
Experience
Excessive Cash
The ways and means that are used by the rich to get even richer are, not surprisingly, closely guarded secrets.
They'd rather nobody else even knew they existed let alone what they are.
Well, one man is different. He didn't start out rich - he had to find out how himself.
Now he is rich enough to not have to work. But he remembers when he wasn't and, to those with the right commitment, he wants to share those secrets. And he's been doing just that, to great acclaim worldwide.
We're already being inundated with questions like: "Who is it?" and "Can you give us a hint?"
Well, OK - I can you tell you this about him just for starters:
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18 books published - total sales over 26,000,000 (!) <- 1 book earned $1 is $26 mil d.... :D
2008 was indeed a year the world turned upside down — all of humankind’s doing — when old battles were renewed and intensified. Coming to the fore were the titanic struggles between socialism and capitalism, race and nationhood, sustainable and extreme exploitations of resources, government and private enterprises.
This was a year of financial meltdown, bailouts, food shortage, record oil prices, civil and political strife, tumbling equity markets, continuing wars and millions more falling into poverty. A year where investments found no safe haven and when cash was literally “king”. Yup, it was certainly a year to forget.
-------------Not much earlier, global economic activities were already being rocked by inflation, particularly in rising food prices and escalating cost of commodities, including crude oil that hit a record US$147 per barrel in July.
This more than anything else has got to spur humans to have a serious relook at the use of the scarce precious resources. Though highly moralistic for a blockbuster that is as much to entertain, Reeves’ alien character’s message is spot on — humanity has to change and mother earth has to be protected.
Each leaf of currency must be made to work as efficiently and as productively as possible.
Sustainability has got to be the key word in any global economic and financial conference to be held from here onwards.
Renewable energy, anyone? Surely that has to be one of the businesses to be in when the global economy recovers — whenever that may be. Oil at US$200 per barrel and beyond is no longer unthinkable in the foreseeable future.
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The fear now is that the US is facing a “liquidity trap” akin to Japan’s lost decade due to a “balance sheet recession” (Richard Koo’s Balance Sheet Recession: Japan’s struggle with Uncharted Economics, John Wiley, Singapore, 2003).
The hope is for Europe, China and India to ease back to business as usual, as quickly as possible and in the process, relieve emerging economies, including Malaysia, from more suffering and pain.
The year ahead will be full of challenges for incoming prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, not only in tackling the economic downturn, but also in forging a more cohesive and sustainable social structure that in his vision must change.
新的一年，我們必須學習如何從深谷中，努力往上爬，找到生路。
這段路程，肯定荊棘滿途，崎嶇難行，然而，放棄的話，就是失敗。
對於2009年，我們沒有甚麼樂觀的理由，卻也沒有悲觀的權利；只有奮力打拚，才能創造生機。
這一年的開始，有些陰晦蕭瑟，然而，或許到了中途，就可以看到一片新天地。