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My parents used to keep telling me how important an education was for our future.

Ever since the sub-prime crisis last year, the financial turmoil has claimed several victims, ranging from US financial institutions Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to global investments firms such as Merrill Lynch and American International Group (AIG).

President Ji’s sudden stepping down from his position came as a shock to analysts and investors. A dinner was hastily organized by the management of COSCO to clarify the intentions of the switch and introduce the new President Jiang Li Jun to analysts.

Let us apply the concepts we have discussed over the past few weeks. Table 1 shows the ROE, ROA, PE, NAV and dividend yield of the 3 companies.

Dayen Environmental’s (Dayen) foray into the coal-mining business was put to a halt as problems kept emerging. Nonetheless, the company is trying to up the pieces all over again.

A warrant is a form of financial derivative that entitles the holder to buy/sell shares of the company that issued it at a specified price.

Mainboard-listed Tat Hong Holdings (Tat Hong), one of the world’s largest crane company announced its FY08 results ended 31 March 2008. Tat Hong is principally engaged in 4 core activities – rental of cranes, rental of general equipment, sale of cranes and other heavy equipment.

Cost of a barrel of oil has breached the US$120 mark and analysts are expecting oil prices to reach US$200 by the end of the year. This would further increase the prices of commodities such as wheat and rice, as farmers need oil to process their harvests.

Costs of raw materials have raised several times ever since the depreciation of the US$ against most of the Asian currencies.