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MSWG Weekly Newsletter 07 February 2020 (English)

07.02.2020

The costly price of ignorance

In the world of stock investing, ignorance can sometimes be a bliss, at other times, a ‘big-time’ bane.

Imagine all the huffing and puffing to chase a stock without allowing common sense to prevail first. Is there any business logic behind a spike in the price of the stock? Or is it merely a speculative drive by some market manipulators?

This is presumably what happened to investors of oil & gas support services provider Icon Offshore Bhd which recently undertook a share consolidation exercise.