Reading Time: < 1 minute This time I am not travelling alone πŸ™‚ I spent past 3 months here in Shanghai, plus a few months I spent early this year, this year marks the longest time I stayed in China since 1997. I enjoyed my time (for the most part) here. At the same time I learned a lot things:

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October 26, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute He came to say a big “thank you” to PetroChina, because he made lots of money from its stock. Also he came to Dalian, to celebrate the opening of his first company in China (a metalworking tool plant). The plant is a part of IMG group, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathway. I would think IMG

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October 25, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute Last night (Oct 24 10 PM, Shanghai time) I bought some Longtop (NYSE:LFT) shares at its IPO debut. I think this is more like “gold rush”, not something a rational investor would usually do. After I bought it at opening ($27), the stock gapped down as low as $23.25 (see the pattern here?). But it

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October 24, 2007

Reading Time: 3 minutes I didn’t pay much attention to Chinese IPOs listed in US lately. This spring (March) I got into XFML, which is a big mess. Recently I traded WX (Wuxi Pharma Tech), which I think is the best Chinese IPO this year so far. But I am not a biotech/pharma guy, and I felt WX valuation

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October 23, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday (Monday Oct 22 Beijing time) I was wondering why the Citic Securities 600030 stock did not trade in Shanghai: the official reason is CS expected to announce some news. I thought about the Bear Stern (NYSE: BSC) thing, and my guess was right. Here is the news this morning (Oct 23), in Chinese and

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October 22, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute I don’t know if you notice this is ζ‘‚θŠ± sweet osmanthus season again. On my way to work, I can smell it. Such as this one (on Changning Rd. near China Merchants Bank). I liked ζ‘‚θŠ± because in my primary school, we used to have one or two trees, and we can smell it during

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October 17, 2007

Reading Time: 2 minutes No. I’m not kidding. Big money (billions of dollars) usually is a good thing, but not easy if one wants to beat market return in a certain time. You can ask Charlie Munger (Berkshire’s vice chairman) and he will tell you Berkshire is going to make a (market+2%) annual return from now on, according to

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October 16, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute Today is Oct 15, 2007. Shanghai Composites Index continued to defy the gravity, amid the central bank (People’s Bank of China) raised bank reserve rate by 0.5 again in the weekend. The composite index closed above 6000 (Sina) for the first time. Interestingly, history shows the CPC congress is bad for the stock market. Here

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October 15, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute Week in review 10/07 to 10/13 China Mingsheng Bank buys a stake in a US bank. China pork price is under control for now, how about housing? And stocks? Oracle placed a hostile $6.7 billion bid for BEA Systems, according to Bloomberg. Enterprise software arena will have one fewer importnant player. SAP buys Business Objects

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October 13, 2007
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