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By Tai, February 6, 2010 7:01 pm

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1. It received least resistance among users. Partly because this design leaves the feed unchanged.
2. Control items were changed. The left menu gives me the immediate impression of a Microsoft Task Bar.
3. The search bar is moved in between, centralizing social search and reminding me of Google. Of course, search is powered by Microsoft Bing.
4. Strategic move: high-light(er) applications and games without interfering with news feed. War with Apple apps?
5. Personally I like the idea of utilizing Facebook as a news reader. Apparently it can’t replace Google Reader and Twitter, but many people I care about are on Facebook, not Twitter.

Conclusion: this is what I believe a web platform should be like.

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By Tai, January 27, 2010 11:08 am

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US

ρ (DJIA, VNI) _2006-2009 = 0.7741

ρ (S&P 500, VNI) _2006-2009 = 0.7528

EU

ρ (FTSE, VNI) _2006-2009 = 0.7374

ρ (DAX, VNI) _2006-2009 = 0.8406

Asia & Oceania

ρ (NIKKEI 225, VNI) _2006-2009 = 0.7114

ρ (HSI, VNI) _2006-2009 = 0.6509

ρ (STI, VNI) _2006-2009 = 0.8519

ρ (CN SSE, VNI) _2006-2009 = 0.6936

ρ (ASX, VNI) _2006-2009 = 0.8507

Below is the regression lines between one high, one ‘medium’ and one ‘low’ correlations

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The UK has the floating rate LIBOR as the reference rate at which banks borrow in the money market. This floating rate is also used for engineering other derivatives.

Respectively, Australia has BBSW: bank-bill reference rate.

In Vietnam, the inter-bank rate between Vietcombank, Agribank, Vietinbank and BIDV has recently been used e.g. for bonds. The full term is long, so I came up with an acronym for it: VAVB. This term is sheerly for the ease of remembering and discussion; the order of the letters serves no other purpose.

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By Tai, January 26, 2010 11:23 pm

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particularly the business model for cost-saving and enhanced bargain power.

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DJIA downturn , concern of East Asian stock markets… are among attempts to explain the break to below 480 of VN Index in the week ending 22/1/2010.

I have a different view. It could have been partly attributable to the speculation that Vietnam interest rate would rise.

On 25/1/2010, the speculation is turned upside down and the market is turned downside up.

Chart: Sacombank Securities website

As always, the grapevines has made the run at the market.

I will run regression to find correlation between DJIA and VNI.