US Presidential Election 2020

 This November is an exciting month, the coming of once every 4 years' US Presidential Election. It is whether Biden or Trump.

Till today, it still looks like the former VP is leading, and he probably need a few more to be the next President. But, vote counting is still in progress. There could be a last minute thing, who knows.

What worries investors, especially those who are in stocks? What if Biden wins? And, if it is the other way round? How will the market respond? Up or down? Worst case, surge or plunge?

Lets wait for the results...

Feeling a bit stressed out?

Long time no see

Sorry, everyone, I have been super busy lately. The Covid-19 thing haven't end yet. A number of countries are still facing second or third waves of infections. US and India are the top two countries getting the bad news lately.

Vaccines development and testing are still on going. It is predicted that the vaccines will only be released for the general public end or early next week.

I just hope that infections rates will come down, so that all countries will open up to visitors and business travellers again.

Too stress out during this Covid-19 period? 

The thing about social distancing

This thing that government and people have been talking about, social distancing. Many have misunderstood it, thinking that as long as you keep a distance away from other people, then it is ok.

NO! IT is not OK! The idea of this whole thing is to tell people to stay away from others, so as to mininize the chance of the Covid-19 virus from cross spreading to other people and their family.

The best thing to do now is to stay home, don't come outdoors if it is not necessary. The worst thing that people want to hear is a lockdown. No one can go anywhere but stay at home.

The CoronaVirus Crisis

For the last one month, things were pretty bad due to the Covid-19 virus spreading from China to many parts of the world, Japan, South Korea, Russia, US, Italy, etc. Worsen since last week, cases after cases of infected persons announced daily, and it is worrying trend.

This crisis also led to the crashing of the stock markets, especially the US. Trillions of stocks value evaporated within a single day! Other smaller stock markets were following. Shopping malls and eateries were empty of crowd, shops were closed, and some people lost their jobs.

Lets hope that the situation gets better, a cure would be found and no more people will be affected by the Virus and those were infected, gets cured soon. Lets pray!

Unknown Virus

Lately, there is this news about a unknown type of coronavirus spreading in Wu Han, China. Reportedly caused an outbreak of pneumonia affecting a few hundred people.

As of today, the Chinese authorities had ordered that no public transport should be running in Wu Han, no flights in or out of the city of 11 million people. everyone should wear masks in public. Basically, the order is to prevent the spread of the virus. No one, including people trying to leave the city for their hometown to celebrate the Chinese New Year would be allowed to leave.

There were also cases suspected and unconfirmed found in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Macau and US. A number of countries have already imposed stringent checks on people coming from China or discouraging its people from traveling to China, especially Wu Han.

It appears that memories of the SAR epidemic outbreak in 2003 brought fear in people, you could see that masks are flying off the shelf of shops. More people are wear masks. In Singapore, the authorities advised its public that there is no need to use N95 masks, rather, just get the surgical masks is good enough.