How to Tell Bad News and Make your Share Price Go Up… maybe this is a better title for this article. I am talking about the 13-Feb Profit Announcement by AMMB Holdings Berhad, Malaysia’s fifth largest banking group by total assets. In that Announcement, it was obvious that the bank is increasingly negative about the Malaysia [...]
As an investor, you want to make sure that your company is not paying obscene salaries to the top execs. We’ve seen what happened at the US investment banks such as Lehmans and Merrill Lynch. Since I’ve got some bank shares, I was a little curious about what our top banking executives earn here in [...]
Here are the key highlights for Malaysia’s banking sector in December 08 based on figures published by Bank Negara. 1. Loan growth of 12.8% year-on-year, driven by business and mortgage loans. This is as the strongest showing since 1998. 2. Industry NPL ratio stood at 4.1% (down from 5.6% last year). NPL is now at [...]
