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Thank God Investing is Fun (#TGIF) is a weekly article discussing relevant capital market events to educate and keep our audience up to date with capital market happenings.
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US - China Trade War: Escalating Tariffs
Trump ordered his administration to impose 10% tarrifs on about $200 billion Chinese goods ranging from steel panels to fresh garlic on...
Sep 21, 2018


Jack Ma to Stepdown as Alibaba's Chairman
Alibaba, one of the biggest e-commerce and retail service platforms in the world will be facing a huge change in their board of...
Sep 14, 2018


Weakening Rupiah: Lowest Level in 20 Years
On Monday (3/9), rupiah hit its lowest level since the Asian financial crisis in 1997-1998, dropping 8,93% since the start of the year....
Sep 7, 2018


Amazon Effect Impacts Inflation Dynamics
Every year, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City holds a symposium that is participated by prominent central bankers, finance...
Aug 31, 2018


Indonesia to Reap Benefits from Asian Games 2018
The 2018 Asian Games officially kicked off on the 18th of August 2018 led by a marvelous opening ceremony held in Gelora Bung Karno...
Aug 24, 2018


Turkish Crisis: Lira Collapsed and Tariffs Ensued
The recent situation in Turkey’s financial markets have certainly been tense. Turkish currency, lira, has lost about 30% of its value...
Aug 17, 2018


Elon Musk Considering Taking Tesla Private
The CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, has just announced that he is considering to take his company from public to private on Tuesday (8/7). The...
Aug 10, 2018


Pertamina Takes Over Rokan Block From Chevron
For more than 90 years, Rokan Block has been fully operated by Chevron. Now, the government through The Minister of Energy and Mineral,...
Aug 3, 2018


IDX Updated LQ45 Index
Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) has just recently updated their LQ45 list on Wednesday (25/7). IDX regularly monitors the performance of...
Jul 27, 2018


The Fed to Raise Interest Rates Gradually
Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, just delivered the semi-annual Monetary Policy Report to the US Congress on July 17th 2018. The...
Jul 20, 2018


US-China Trade War: Officially Underway
President of the United States, Donald Trump, has just launched 25% tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods on Friday (7/6),...
Jul 13, 2018


US Stocks on 4th of July
Citizens of the United States were happily ready to celebrate the country’s 242nd birthday; however, disappointment circulated to those...
Jul 6, 2018


Market Remains Active as Regional Elections Take Place
Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) claimed that capital market trading continued normally on Wednesday (6/27), even though the day was set by...
Jun 29, 2018


General Electric Dropped from Dow Index
After 110 years of being a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, General Electric (GE) will not be in the blue-chip index anymore....
Jun 22, 2018


FIFA World Cup to Affect Market Trading
The World Cup kicked off yesterday, on Thursday (14/6) in Russia. This may be the stuff of dreams for soccer fans, but it will be less so...
Jun 15, 2018


Starbucks Stocks Value Falls as Chairman Resigns
After striving for four decades to bring a small coffee shop becomes a worldwide franchise, Howard Schultz, Executive Chairman of...
Jun 8, 2018


Italian Crisis Worsens Global Financial Markets
Earlier this week, President of Italy, Sergio Maratella, blocked the formation of an anti-establishment government. Political instability...
Jun 1, 2018


Bomb Terror Impacts Financial Market
Indonesia’s stock index and exchange rate fell on Monday (5/14), after a bomb explosion rocked the main police office at Surabaya....
May 25, 2018


BI Rate Raised Amidst External Pressures
External pressures such as the uncertainty in global financial markets have led to the raise of BI’s interest rate on Thursday, May 17th...
May 18, 2018


TGIF: Fintech vs. Techfin
In this fast-paced technology-driven era, numerous new terms have come into play and became popularly used, including Fintech and...
May 11, 2018
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