2016年5月31日 星期二

收市10大要知:中港股市興奮 道期跌30點

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【on.cc東網專訊】 中港股市在五窮月最後一個交易日都收升,歐美今日都有數據排隊出場,歐元區將公布4月失業率,至於美國就有4月個人收入月率、4月個人消費支出月率、以及 5月消費者信心指數。數據公布前,歐股靠穩,道期現跌30點,報17,865點。以下為「收市10大要知」新聞:

1、統計處:4月零售額按年跌7.5%
政府統計處公布,4月的零售額臨時估計為352億元,按年下跌7.5%。3月修訂跌9.8%。今年首4個月合計零售額下跌11.4%。
扣除期間價格變動後,4月的零售量按年跌7.6%。3月的零售量修訂跌8.8%。今年首4個月合計零售量跌10.5%。

2、歐股靠穩 福士跌逾2%
亞洲股市繼續做好,歐股早段靠穩,當中英國富時100指數報6,284點,升13點或0.22%;法國CAC指數報4,533點,升3點或0.08%;德國DAX指數報10,347點,升13點或0.14%。

3、五窮月埋門掃升 成交最後1分鐘逾300億
恒 指五窮月最後一個交易日開低後彈升,高位曾漲345點至20,974點,尾市升幅收窄,收市報20,815點,升185點或0.9%,主板成交急升逾千 億,達1,031億元;國指升185點或0.9%,報8,704點。滬股通餘額92億元人民幣,港股通餘額86億元人民幣。
港股收市前最後1分鐘成交額306.52億元,佔全日大市成交額約3成。如以4月29日收市位21,067點計,恒指全月跌251點或1.19%。儘管臨尾連升6個交易日,但五窮月效應仍然應驗。

4、滬指收漲3% 金融股急漲近6%
高盛報告上調6月MSCI指數納入A股比率至70%,刺激市場投資情緒,券商、內險及內銀等金融股成為升市火車頭,滬深股市今日升幅達3至4%。
滬 綜指收復2,900點,盤中高見2,917.14點,全日升94點或3.34%,報2,916點,是近3個月以來最大單日升幅;深成指企穩萬點關樓上,以 全日最高位10,159.93點收市,大漲391點或4%;滬深300升102點或3.35%,至3,169點;創業板指數收復2,100點,大升101 點或4.92%,報2,159點。2市共有96隻股升停板,僅9隻股份下挫,主板成交急增逾80%,至逾6,300億元人民幣(下同);滬股通現錄餘額逾 92.29億元或70%,淨流入逾37億,為逾4個月最多。

5、差估署:4月私樓回升0.7% 細價樓全線彈
差估署公布,香港4月份私宅售價指數連跌6個月後反彈,按月回升0.7%,至273.1。如與去年9月份高位306.1比較,累跌10.78%。至於今年首4月累跌4.17%。
4月份私宅租金指數則連跌7個月,報163.2,按月錄跌0.12%。如與去年9月份高位177.5比較,累跌8.05%。首4月亦累跌4.67%。

6、iBond 6:今起認購 擁躉踴躍 勢超去年
iBond 6(04231)首天接受認購,中銀香港(02388)全球市場助理總經理財資產品管理(投資)主管張穎思稱,iBond已推出多年,擁有不少支持者,加上現時投資氣氛波動,投資者會偏向穩健產品分散投資,料今次反應依然非常踴躍,絕對希望能突破去年。
她又指,iBond對上一次派息有2.37厘,穩健產品類中回報算吸引,該行去年每人平均認購約5至6手,今年一如既往針對回籠資金設其他投資產品優惠。

7、囍逸超購逾9倍 加推38伙281萬起
上車新盤認購反應踴躍,信置(00083)營業部聯席董事田兆源表示,粉嶺囍逸已錄超過600個登記,較首張價單60伙超額認購逾9倍,因應市場需求,今日加推全新38伙的價單,包括首度推出10個開放式單位,折實入場費僅約281萬元起,料屬區內新盤新例後入場費新低。
他指出,該盤今日原價加推的38伙,價單平均呎價12,205元,折實平均呎價10,655元,已推價單的98伙,價單市值約4.8億元,料日內公布銷售安排及下周中開售。

8、搞網搞到有錢送上門 有咩竅門?
阿 里巴巴「香港創業者基金」近期宣布注資3間初創公司,除了網上物流平台GoGoVan,還包括網上品牌服飾租賃平台YEECHOO、及一站式開網店平台 Shopline。今期《創意新勢力》找來YEECHOO及Shopline的創辦人,分享他們的創業故事,看看阿里創辦人馬雲是否確有獨到的眼光!

9、湯文亮:樓市隱憂是銀主盤續現
差 估署住宅售價回升,紀惠集團行政總裁湯文亮認為,樓市初階調整已經完成,所以在2個月前已叫人「啱價」就可以買,理由是去年有很多年青人沒有上車,購買力 仍在。其次,內地去庫存計劃,有唔少持有內地物業的港人、甚至國內人賣走國內物業,轉買香港樓;第3,申請按保的人倍增,達到日均90宗,且質素甚高,這 是對樓市有支持。
湯文亮話,初階調整已完成,但估計,樓市只是暫時穩定,隱憂依然是按在財務公司的物業,不少已經是資不抵債,而有中介人表示市場將會有1萬個銀主盤。

10、印度拒蘋果公司銷售二手iPhone
蘋果公司向印度政府申請進口二手iPhone已遭否決。外媒報道,印度工商部表示,印度不歡迎任何公司出售用過的舊手機,不論是否符合標準,是次為蘋果公司近期第2度被印度拒絕,上次是蘋果公司申請開設零售店遭拒。

今年「六絕」勢由頭chok到尾 有咩大事?

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【on.cc東網專訊】 雖然港股「五窮月」臨尾發力,但始終未能擺脫5月全月下跌的魔咒,明日就是「六絕月」開始,今年6月更不平凡,當中包括日本央行、歐央行、聯儲局議息,之 後歐央行又有新政策實行、德國憲法法院裁決OMT、英國「脫歐」公投、西班牙選舉,以及歐洲金融交易稅決定。總之不會平坦,金融市場勢必震盪!以下是各項 事件的排序:

6月1日
日本國會閉幕,市場預期日本首相安倍晉三可能會宣布新的財政政策。市場普遍認為,安倍將推遲提高消費稅,並且增加5萬至10萬億日圓預算。另傳安倍還可能宣布解散下議院,並重新舉行議會選舉。

6月2日至16日:央行會議

6月2日
歐央行將會公布議息結果,並發表新的經濟預期。市場預計,由於經濟基本因素得到改善,可能會維持現有的貨幣政策不變。

6月7日
澳洲央行公布議息結果,市場預期維持利率不變,但澳洲經濟遠談不上復甦,因此市場關注的是央行會否暗示再減息。

6月16日
美國聯儲局公布議息結果,雖然有機會加息,但市場仍是預期,9月才會行動。

6月16日
日本央行宣布議息結果,市場高度關注會否進一步量化寬鬆,甚至推出「直升機撒錢」。

6月21日
德國憲法法院將裁定OMTs(歐央行直接貨幣交易計劃)的合法性。如果德國拒絕OMTs,將對歐元區造成新的不穩定性。

6月23日
英國「脫歐」公投。一旦英國宣布「脫歐」,經濟將面臨嚴重困難,全球金融市場難免大幅波動。

6月26日
西班牙大選。分析人士認為,因經濟和社會問題,西班牙已陷入政治迷途,隨時勾起「歐債危機」恐慌。

6月30日
歐洲金融交易稅決議。不少國家認為,徵收金融交易稅將有利於打擊金融市場投機行為、增加政府稅收,以及防範金融系統風險。但是值得注意的是,歐盟只有9個國家支持徵稅,其中英國尤其反對。如果交易稅獲得通過,將對金融市場帶來負面影響。

澳門消息:非法集資3300萬 地產舖3人落網

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【on.cc東網專訊】 繼早前有當舖店主涉非法集資千萬港元後潛逃,澳門再有地產公司涉嫌非法集資,涉及金額最少3300萬港元。今次案件因支付利息的支票無法兌現才被揭發,地產公司3名股東被捕。

澳門司警表示,累計接獲24人報案,於2014年開始分別在一家地產公司存入50萬至1600萬港元,收取1.5%至2.2%的月息,直至今年1月,該24 人收到的利息支票無法兌現,繼而揭發事件。司警指,被捕3名股東中,2人自稱無權開出支票,另1名涉嫌經手開出支票的股東則拒絕交代資金去向,司警仍需調 查案中資金流向及是否有其他涉案者。

澳門金融管理局呼籲,市民切勿向沒有金融牌照的機構存款,而沒有金融牌照吸納存款屬刑事罪行。

FEMA Preparing For Magnitude 9.0 Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake, Tsunami

以前有人預言溫哥華和新西蘭會沉落海底, 希望預言不會成真 !

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Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,

Starting on June 7th, FEMA will be conducting a large scale drill that has been named “Cascadia Rising” that will simulate the effects of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone and an accompanying west coast tsunami dozens of feet tall. According to the official flyer for the event, more than “50 counties, plus major cities, tribal nations, state and federal agencies, private sector businesses, and non-governmental organizations across three states – Washington, Oregon, and Idaho – will be participating”.  In addition to “Cascadia Rising”, U.S. Northern Command will be holding five other exercises simultaneously.  According to the final draft of the Cascadia Rising drill plan, those five exercises are entitled “Ardent Sentry 2016″, “Vigilant Guard”, “Special Focus Exercise”, “Turbo Challenge” and “Joint Logistics Over-The-Shore”.

The primary scenario that of all of these participants will be focusing on will be one that involves a magnitude 9.0 earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone followed by a giant tsunami that could displace up to a million people from northern California to southern Canada.

We have never seen such a disaster before in all of U.S. history.

Do they know something that the rest of us do not?

It is funny that they are preparing to deal with the effects of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, because that is precisely the size of earthquake that I warned about in an article back in March.

The San Andreas Fault in southern California gets more headlines, but the Cascadia Subduction Zone is a much larger threat by far.  This fault zone is where the Juan de Fuca plate meets the North American plate, and it stretches approximately 700 miles from northern Vancouver Island all the way down to northern California.

If a magnitude 9.0 earthquake were to strike, the immense shaking and subsequent tsunami would cause damage on a scale that is hard to even imagine right now.  Perhaps this is why FEMA feels such a need to get prepared for this type of disaster, because the experts assure us that it is most definitely coming someday.  The following comes from the official website of the “Cascadia Rising” exercise…

A 9.0 magnitude earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) and the resulting tsunami is the most complex disaster scenario that emergency management and public safety officials in the Pacific Northwest could face. Cascadia Rising is an exercise to address that disaster.

June 7-10, 2016 Emergency Operations and Coordination Centers (EOC/ECCs) at all levels of government and the private sector will activate to conduct a simulated field response operation within their jurisdictions and with neighboring communities, state EOCs, FEMA, and major military commands.

If you don’t think that the scenario that they are studying is realistic, perhaps you should consider the fact that the largest earthquake in the history of the continental United States stuck along the Cascadia Subduction Zone back in 1700.  The following comes from CNN

In fact, “the Cascadia” already has made history, causing the largest earthquake in the continental United States on January 26, 1700. That’s when the Cascadia unleashed one of the world’s biggest quakes, causing a tsunami so big that it rampaged across the Pacific and damaged coastal villages in Japan.

Yes, we all remember the big Hollywood blockbuster about the San Andreas fault.  But if they wanted to be more realistic, they should have made the movie about the Cascadia Subduction Zone.  According to a professor of geophysics at Oregon State University, the Cascadia Subduction Zone has the potential to create an earthquake “almost 30 times more energetic” than anything the San Andreas Fault can produce…

Everyone knows the Cascadia’s cousin in California: the San Andreas Fault. It gets all the scary glamor, with even a movie this year, “San Andreas,” dramatizing an apocalypse in the western U.S.

Truth is, the San Andreas is a lightweight compared with the Cascadia.

The Cascadia can deliver a quake that’s many times stronger — plus a tsunami.

“Cascadia can make an earthquake almost 30 times more energetic than the San Andreas to start with, and then it generates a tsunami at the same time, which the side-by-side motion of the San Andreas can’t do,” said Chris Goldfinger, a professor of geophysics at Oregon State University.

And the kind of tsunami that would be created by such a massive quake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone would absolutely dwarf the massive tsunami that struck Japan back in 2011.  In fact, an article in the New Yorker quoted the head of the FEMA division that oversees Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska as saying that “everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast”…

If the entire zone gives way at once, an event that seismologists call a full-margin rupture, the magnitude will be somewhere between 8.7 and 9.2. That’s the very big one.

…By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”

In the Pacific Northwest, everything west of Interstate 5 covers some hundred and forty thousand square miles, including Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, Salem (the capital city of Oregon), Olympia (the capital of Washington), and some seven million people.

We live at a time when the crust of our planet is becoming increasingly unstable

All over the world the Ring of Fire is roaring to life, and the Cascadia Subduction Zone lies directly along the Ring of Fire.  Just last week, I wrote about the alarming earthquake swarms that we have seen directly under Mt. Rainier, Mt. Hood and Mt. St. Helens, and now we have learned that FEMA is about to hold a major drill that is going to simulate a magnitude 9.0 earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone and an accompanying west coast tsunami dozens of feet in height.

Of course most Americans aren’t concerned about this threat at all.
Most Americans just assume that life will continue to go on normally just as it always has.

But I happen to agree with the experts that are promising us that an absolutely massive earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone will strike someday, and when that happens life in America will be permanently altered.

哥倫比亞爆反華示威 暴徒打砸商店

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【on.cc東網專訊】 南美洲國家哥倫比亞首都波哥大的市中心商場,當地時間上周四爆發反華商騷亂。中國駐哥倫比亞大使館已向當局提出交涉,並表示強烈不滿。

據 悉,約50名哥倫比亞商販當日闖入華人商店破壞及推打店員。波哥大商販於上月18日,亦舉行反華商示威,指責華商「搶佔生意」及「威脅生存」,呼籲當地民 眾購買國貨。當地執法部門亦以涉嫌走私漏稅及非法居留,拘捕了13名華人及查抄華商店鋪。當局要求,部分居留身份有問題的人士,必須於限期內離境。

波哥大反華商騷亂的起因,相信與華商高價出租商鋪及商品價格低廉有關。自哥倫比亞政府去年放寬華商及中國遊客的簽證後,大量華商進入當地,令當地商販不滿。

台基隆外海7.2級地震 能量如31.7顆原子彈

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【on.cc東網專訊】 台灣東北部外海今日下午1時23分發生黎克特制7.2級地震,震央位於基隆市政府東北方73.1公里的海域,地震深度約271.3公里。根據台灣中央氣象局公式推算,今次地震釋放的能量約等於31.7顆廣島原子彈。

是次地震全台都有震感,其中宜蘭縣牛鬥、花蓮縣和平、南投縣合歡山震度達4級,至於台北市及新北市震度為3級,目前尚未傳出災情。

台灣氣象局表示,這次地震是因為深海板塊隱沒造成,深度超過200公里,民眾先感受到上下短時間震動,然後才開始左右搖晃,是深度地震的特徵。氣象局又指,這次地震夠深夠遠,民眾不必太擔心餘震。

4漢涉扮學生爆竊 閉路電視錄得疑犯入大廈

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【on.cc東網專訊】 天水圍公共屋苑早前接連發生爆竊案,歹徒預先套取閘門密碼,再扮學生闖入大廈用百合匙開門搜掠。2名香港男子及2名內地漢事後被捕,被控予外出時備有偷竊 用的物品罪及入屋犯法罪。4人今日再押解至屯門法院應訊,繼續毋須答辯,案件押後至7月11日,以待警方繼續調查及諮詢法律意見,4人繼續收押。

控方在庭上交代調查進度,指牽涉4名被告的過百宗爆竊個案之中,警方已翻看15宗涉案大廈的閉路電視片段,其中7宗拍攝到疑犯穿着校服進入大廈。控方又指,其中31宗個案尚需時鑑證指模,另有門鎖與爆竊工具的痕迹比較報告,要9月才完成。

被告依次是裝修工人林鉦軒(31歲)及均屬無業的蔡宗岳(32歲)、古俊鋒(21歲)及彭磊(22歲)。首及次被告是港人,第三及四被告是內地人。控罪指4 人於今年3月1日在天水圍一帶備有百合匙、手套、對講機等物品,以供爆竊過程中使用;4人另被控在同日爆竊天瑞邨某單位,在該處偷竊兩條鎖匙。

魚缸通:五窮月尾反低潮

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港股即將脫離「五窮月」,即使嚟緊係「六絕月」,散戶都一於少理,齊齊追貨!致富證券將軍澳分行助理經理梁柏樺(Ray)話,股友尋日起已出動追貨,主力吸中港券商股同內險股;加上抽iBond 6都係今日主要節目之一,所以分行同事都做到踢晒腳。

Ray又話,因為希臘違約問題暫緩,加上市場唱美國會加息,令佢哋覺得環球經濟有改善,壞消息似乎已盡出,股市又升穿咗下降軌,所以拿拿聲買貨,部分股友今早6.8元追入中國銀河(06881),打算揸耐啲;而尋日2.33元買入國泰君安(01788)嘅股友都忍手,計劃約2.6元先出貨。

另外,內險股都有粉絲追捧,中國平安(02318)、中國太平(00966)等亦有料到。

iBond 6今日開始接受認購,券商行見少量人龍排隊申購。

法國交通工具接連罷工 歐國盃交通勢混亂

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【on.cc東網專訊】 2016年歐洲國家盃將在法國舉行,但當地正值罷工浪潮,公共交通運輸的各大工會接連宣布罷工,恐會使歐國盃除了面對恐襲的威脅,也勢將出現交通混亂。

法國政府正推行勞工改革,引發國內廣泛不滿,罷工及示威不絕;法國全國鐵路罷工將會於當地時間周二開始,而巴黎的地鐵僱員也會在周四起罷工。與此同時,法國 航空公司(Air France)機師的主要工會「全國航空公司機師工會(SNPL)」,在當地時間周一亦投票通過會進行為期6天以上的罷工行動,以抗議資方削減機師薪酬。 SNPL稱,有68%參與投票的機師贊成罷工。

法航機師正式的罷工日期尚有待公布,但SNPL的發言人稱「必定會在6月行動」,據傳媒報道,估計法航旗下3600名機師中,會有約1360人參與罷工;歐國盃將於6月10日至7月10日舉行,到法國觀戰的外國球迷因而有可能受阻。

較早前已有歐洲保安部門消息指,回教極端組織「伊斯蘭國」(IS)意圖於6月11日,向觀看英格蘭對俄羅斯歐國盃賽事的球迷施襲;為此,英國保安部門已和法國警方加強合作防範。

華碩首款機械人ZenBao 定價不用4700元

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【on.cc東網專訊】 台媒報道,華碩(ASUS)在Computex 2016展前活動發表一系列手提電腦及手機,但最吸引市場視線是華碩首款的ZenBao機械人,定位為智能家居助手,具備遠端監控、攝影、遠端監控等功 能。華碩暫未有披露上市日期,售價則採親民策略,為599美元(約4,653港元)。

Zenbo屬小巧的機械人,外型圓潤,機身底部設有滾輪裝置。其具備即時回答、互動等功能。而Zenbo頭部前方的屏幕,可以顯示各種資訊,並依據與用家的對話內容,顯示不同表情。

另外,由於Zenbo可與loT物聯網產品相連,因此用家可透過語音指令Zenbo開燈或關電視。機械人同時內置相機及音樂播放功能,可影相或播音樂。對於有長者的用家,Zenbo亦設有緊急警示功能,若家人跌倒,Zenbo會即時將警示通知傳送至預設的家庭成員手機。

內地假大戶出蠱惑招派貨! 小心中伏

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【on.cc東網專訊】 股市托價或派貨蠱惑招層出不窮!消息透露,最近接連有自稱大戶授權代表到證券行開戶,向經紀吹噓平日交易量大,同時不會持貨過夜,向券商爭取高額融資,開戶後短時間內用盡額度,買入大量成交疏落細價股,個別股份買入金額更達當日成交額逾半,因開戶的香港公司為空殼公司,公司股東並非香港居民,業界相信若股價急挫很大機會走數,屆時不但券商要埋單,跟風散戶同樣會中伏。

有券商指,過往莊家托價或派貨較繁複,例如透過「人頭倉」坐貨,令貨源歸邊,即所謂「夠乾身」,同時利用搭棚方式「攪旺個場」,即掛出大量買盤的同時,掛出若干沽盤,營造交投暢旺假象,最終目的是吸引散戶落疊,但需時及成本較高。

惟最近市場出現更多更快捷方法,最近相繼有網銀戶口遭黑客入侵及進行未授權股票交易,有業界揣測背後目的或與托價或散貨有關。證券界消息更指,近期有自稱大戶授權代表到證券行開戶,向素未謀面的經紀吹噓平日交易量大,但沒提供其他券商交易單據,當經紀以為有大客戶時,自然會游說公司提供較高孖展額度。

消息續指,他們開戶時多由書面授權持有人進行,當券商進行盡職調查,查證有關空殼公司股東時,發現股東為內地居民,而且未能取得聯絡,但因文件有律師見證,又有銀行開戶文件等,券商都放行批准開戶。

消息又稱,開設孖展戶口,需先存入一定數量資金,同時會因應不同種類股份,會有不同成數限制,但因「大戶」聲稱不會持貨過夜,故槓桿較高,「一百萬錢可以炒五、六百萬貨」,而且當「大戶」用完孖展額度後,會再向券商進行無抵押透支。

●不排除屬集團式經營
據悉,當額度到手後,「大戶」短時間內會用盡,買入大量流通量低的細價股。他們在港以低成本成立空殼公司,且大多買入細價股,同時短期內接二連三有人運用類似方法提出開戶及高額度交易要求,不排除屬集團式經營。

有熟悉市場運作人士稱,不排除這些所謂「大戶」是與莊家合作,短時間內托高股價,若有散戶跟風最好,即使沒散戶落疊,因是用券商資金買貨,股價急挫乾脆「走數」,最終由券商埋單。

業界呼籲為免證券行蒙受損失,開戶時須做足盡職審查,例如見過開戶人、核實有關銀行開戶文件、查證公司的存在、實地視察其辦公室、向公司註冊處查證股東背景等,若屬離岸公司,要找律師做證明等。

據了解,證監會年前與證券界開會時曾提及,若遇到有客戶突然要求特大信用額度,券商需加倍留神及須做好「認識你的客戶」(KYC)工作。

●倘走數 證券行須硬食
立法會議員張華峰稱,現時券商在開戶時已很小心,不會隨便批出較高的額度,特別是新成立的公司或有內地背景的公司,批出額度會更審慎。

投資者學會主席譚紹興指,自滬港通開通後,有內地不法分子來港搵食,很多內地莊家慣用的炒股手法會搬到香港,曾聽聞有內地居民扮大客來港開戶,之後券商中招硬食等事件。

他又提醒,若有細價股在完全沒消息下,股價突然爆升逾倍,散戶須小心,不要「跟車太貼」,這或是有心人出貨,「舉例說,有心人在A券商有批蟹貨想沽,本來每股只值0.1元,但找B券商用高價掃貨,T+2日交收後,A券商沽出的蟹貨已袋咗錢,B券商就走數!」

2016年5月30日 星期一

中銀銀聯雙幣信用卡豁免海外簽帳手續費

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【on.cc東網專訊】 暑假將至,中銀信用卡宣布,該行「中銀銀聯雙幣信用卡」豁免海外簽帳手續費(一般手續費為交易金額之1.95%,即每簽帳10,000元可省卻約195元手續費)。

該行並在東南亞及澳洲等旅遊地區,提供一系列購物及觀光景點優惠。如日本BIC CAMERA 95折、韓國樂天免稅店低至85折、台灣誠品書店低至9折等。

8月1日起徵機場建設費 暑假外遊趁早買機票

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【on.cc東網專訊】 機場管理局今日公布,今年8月1日或之後發出的機票,將徵收機場建設費。航空公司於發出機票時,將向於香港國際機場離港的旅客,包括離境、過境或轉機,收取相關費用。換言之,旅客只要趕在8月1日前出機票,縱使在8月1日後才起飛,亦毋須繳付建設費,準備暑假外遊的市民要把握時間了。

機管局早前公布,為興建機場第三跑道的融資安排,將收取機場建設費,並按機位級別,以及長、短途航程設定不同收費,短途經濟艙乘客每位收費90港元,長途經濟艙乘客每位收費160港元;頭等及商務艙乘客收費方面,短途160港元,長途為180港元 。

過境、轉機旅客方面,短途經濟艙乘客為70港元,長途經濟客位乘客收費為160港元;頭等及商務客位方面,短途收160港元,長途收180港元。

6月一開首 中歐美輪流「經」嚇

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【on.cc東網專訊】 今日英美股市休市,預期周二亞洲股市將會平淡度過「五窮月」最後一日。不過,今年「6絕月」注定不平凡,一開首的3個交易日就要受到中、歐、美重要數據或會議左右,隨時令金融市場大幅波動:

1、中國PMI指數
6月1日,中國將公布官方製造業採購經理指數(PMI),同時公布財新PMI指數。分析表示,這指標比簡單的GDP數據更能反映中國實際經濟情況。今年3月的PMI指數顯示,中國經濟企穩,但4月數據顯示經濟重陷疲弱。

2、歐央行會議
6月2日,歐央行在維也納召開會議,雖然市場不預期會放水,但之前有媒體透露,歐央行可能討論恢復向希臘銀行業開放再融資事宜,這對希臘債務危機是否進一步緩解有着重大啟示。

3、美國就業報告
6月3日,美國公布5月非農就業報告,這將為聯儲局在6月16日是否加息帶來重大啟示。經濟學家估計,5月非農職位增長15.6萬個,失業率繼續保持在5%。

打擊金融犯罪 滙豐香港收緊保險箱條款

進一步搶劫........ ?

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【on.cc東網專訊】 外電報道,滙控(00005)為致力打擊洗黑錢等不法活動,加強對旗下滙豐香港保險箱的監控,並向保險箱用戶發出電郵,推出新出租條款。

據報,滙豐保險箱新出租條款包括要求用戶不能於保險箱存放任何「滋擾性」、「違法」或「具冒犯性」的財產,包括爆炸物、易燃或液體性物品、違禁藥物、武器、槍械及被盜竊財物。不過,有關電郵未有提出如何執行新條款細則及違反罰則。

報道指,經修訂保管箱條款,銀行有權在未經客戶同意下,棄置任何被認為是非法、具冒犯性或不雅的物品,且要求客戶須於1個月內簽署確認信。報道又引述律師稱,新條款或涉侵犯用戶個人私隱。

滙豐發言人回覆指,該行十分重視客戶的私隱和安全,且只有承租人或其正式委任的代表,方可接觸保管箱;但鑑於服務性質,保管箱或有機會被犯罪分子濫用。

發言人續稱,為保護金融系統免受不法活動如洗黑錢的滲透利用,故於「保管箱租用條款」加入新條文,以進一步打擊金融犯罪,並於有需要時與執法機構進行合作。 該行亦已為2004年12月18日前租用保管箱的客戶更新「保管箱租用條款」,讓於該日前租用保管箱的所有客戶採用劃一的條款。

日圓兌港元跌穿7算 專家建議投資黃金避險

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【on.cc東網專訊】 聯儲局主席耶倫可能未來數月加息的言論支持美元匯價,加上有日本官員透露政府很可能將原定明年進一步上調消費稅的計劃押後,引發當地經濟需要更多刺激措施 提振的揣測,日圓最多挫1.03%,至111.45兌一美元的一個月新低,每百日圓兌港元跌穿7算,低見6.9722港元。

儘管日圓兌美元跌穿110關口,但摩根大通產管理分析員David Tan表示,六月份全球金融市場面臨多項不明朗因素,包括英國就脫離歐盟公投、聯儲局議息會議,以及陷於混戰的西班牙大選均會於六月份發生,有需要分散投 資,黃金和日圓均是理想之選,國債亦是抵禦市場波動的理想資產。

寨卡或肆虐美國 英專家警告:勿去迪士尼

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【on.cc東網專訊】 寨卡病毒繼續肆虐全球多個國家。英國倫敦衞生及熱帶藥物學院教授惠特沃思( Jimmy Whitworth)警告,一旦寨卡病毒持續擴散,遊客應避免前往美國南部州分旅遊,包括位於佛羅里達州的迪士尼世界主題公園。

惠特沃思表示,夏季天氣有利蚊子繁殖,擔心會促使寨卡病毒進一步擴散。他指:「現時美國還未發現帶有寨卡病毒的蚊子,所以現在可以放心去美國迪士尼公園,但兩、三個月後就難以預測。」為此,他呼籲懷孕及打算懷孕的女士,不要前往美國南部州分旅遊,應改往其他地方。

美國參議院本月通過設立11億美金(約86億港元)的緊急資金,對抗寨卡病毒。目前,美國疾病控制及預防中心(CDC)發現591宗寨卡病例,全部為外遊後回國發現,暫未有本土病例。

大館冧樓:堪輿家指二黑入宮 農曆4月多災

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【on.cc東網專訊】 距離香港城市大學發生冧天花不足10日,舊中區警署建築群中的已婚督察宿舍牆身昨日又突然倒塌,兩位堪輿學家指出,今年乃「二黑」飛星入中宮,代表土星受困,容易發生與土地相關的問題,如山泥傾瀉、地震、冧樓等;至於高風險災區則為中區及東北區。

堪輿學家麥玲玲指,今年農曆4月及農曆7月是最多災難性事件發生的月份,而香港兩宗倒塌事故均發生於農曆4月,相信到了新曆6月5日即踏入農曆5月,情況會稍為緩和,加上今年是寅申巳亥猴年,即除土地之外,凡有關交通、飛機、大型網絡等事項均需小心。

另一位堪輿學家陳子才指出,由於今年災區為中區及東北區,凡與「中」及「東北」方向有關的地方均需小心,而位於九龍塘的城大及中環的舊中區警署同位於香港中間的位置,故事故與流年吻合,其他高風險地方則如鄰近中環的灣仔、金鐘,以及位於東北面的將軍澳及西貢等。

火星今晚最近地球 遇上熒惑守心被指不祥

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【on.cc東網專訊】 本月22日起,夜空出現「火星衝日」的天文現象,即地球、火星與太陽成一直線,地球位處火星及太陽之間,而今晚則是火星近11年以來距離地球最近的一日。世界各地及香港的民眾均可「近距離」欣賞火星。

今晚火星距離地球僅約7530萬公里,相比最遠時的4億公里,距離縮短約80%。在未來兩周,火星均會顯得又大又亮。有專家表示,在太陽下山後往東南方觀看 夜空,很大機會可看到明亮的火星,土星及明亮的心宿二亦在附近。「火星衝日」將維持至6月3日,下一次與火星「近距離接觸」,則要等到2018年。

此外,今次的火星衝日剛巧碰上「熒惑守心」的現象。中國古代稱火星為熒惑,「熒惑守心」即火星停留在心宿(天蠍座)。心宿二古稱「大火」,古人認為火星與心 宿二兩顆最紅的星如此接近,是不祥之兆。熒惑守心在今年4月17日首次發生,此後火星在心宿附近逆行,至6月30日方變回順行,再度橫越心宿一次,並在8 月24再度出現熒惑守心現象。下一次熒惑守心,要等至2048年才再發生。

內地翻新手機再度活躍 4大品牌頻中招

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內媒報道,隨着蘋果公司的iPhone SE在3月份上市後,內地翻新機市場又活躍起來,不少商家紛紛大做翻新機的生意,令淘寶、天貓、京東、亞馬遜等平台出現翻新機或山寨機。

據中國質量萬里行投訴平台統計,去年消費者買到翻新機的投訴共255宗,而今年由1月至5月20日止,相關投訴已達130宗;其中消費者在淘寶和京東上買到翻新機的情況最多,而4個最多被翻新的手機廠商分別為Apple、三星、華為和小米。

報道指,內地商家將iPhone的舊機型翻新,特別是iPhoneSE的外觀與iPhone5/5s極其相似,以鐳射技術將SE的字樣刻舊機後殼,費用僅約 60元人民幣(下同),之後便可偽裝成iPhoneSE並作分銷。而iPhone6​​變身iPhone6S的過程亦很簡單,只需將舊iPhone6​​ 換一個iPhone6S的新殼,將IMEI碼改為Apple官網能夠查到的號碼,改裝成本價僅500元,加上回收手機所需1,000多元,一部翻新的 iPhone利潤達2,000至3,000元。

報道引述業內人士指,門市銷售的手機,相關部門對市場監控較方便,但網購渠道通常沒有實體店,令監管難度大增,間接導致網購出現假貨氾濫。

Another Real Estate Crash Looms: Sam Zell Dumps Holdings, Warns "The Fed's Deferred Reality For Too Long"

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Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,

If you haven’t heard yet, median home prices in the United States are on a tear having reached all-time highs in April. To boot, rental prices have gone insane, showing a year-over-year inflationary increase of 8%. On top of that, stock markets are rocketing back to their own all time highs based on the premise that the U.S. economy is seeing healthy growth. By all official accounts, it appears that we’re back on track.

But appearances can be deceiving and highly acclaimed investment guru Sam Zell isn’t buying the hype. In fact, he’s taking this opportunity to sell… in a very big way.

Wolf Richter explains:

And he has been selling. Back in 2007, he once again proved his sense of market timing. As the commercial property bubble was already teetering, he sold Equity Office Properties Trust to Blackstone for $23 billion, not including $16 billion in debt. Then prices crashed, and commercial property defaults hit the banks. As the dust was settling at the end of the Great Recession, he went on a shopping spree.

Now he’s selling again, unloading multifamily properties at peak prices on a massive scale just when a multi-year construction boom is flooding the market with new supply.


So when Sam Zell speaks, our ears perk up.

Read the full report at Wolf Street
In a recent interview with CNBC Zell noted that zero interest rate policies are removing the risk of borrowing, making it easy for big banks and finance companies to keep pushing supply onto the market.

Easy credit. What could possibly go wrong?

“Overall we’ve come off this extraordinary period of liquidity and this extraordinary period of low interest rates… I think we’re unlikely to see a repeat of that going forward, and I think we’re going to see more supply in what had been pretty tight markets.”



“In the most simplistic terminology, I would ask you the question, if something is free, is it valued? Is it appropriately risked?”

“We have distorted markets. Maybe we have bubbles.”



“The problem is I think the Fed should have raised interest rates two years ago, and therefore today would be able to make a much more rational decision as to what to do. The problem is that they’ve so deferred reality for so long that I think they have a serious credibility problem if they don’t raise rates.”

Everything seems to be booming again – easy money, easy lending, rising prices, and a bread and circused populous.

Never mind the nearly 50 million Americans on food stamps, the six million millennials living in their parents’ basements, or the massive spike in business debt delinquencies.

Should Americans be preparing for another collapse?

Probably not, because despite all of the market distortions, there is really no need for concern. This time it really is different.

人仔息速遞:速望!人幣定存高息推介

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【on.cc東網專訊】 又到《東網》周一人民幣高息定存推介,最近人民幣拆息輕微上升,開始見銀行有調高人民幣定存年息迹象,靜咗一大論的永隆銀行,上周3上調短息10至20點子,今日亦有大行推出新優惠,銀行似乎一改按兵不動的策略,轉為蠢蠢欲動。

清算行中銀香港(02388)原有的人民幣團購優惠僅3及6個月期,該行今日起新增12個月期團購優惠,新資金年息有3%,現有資金則2.9%,起存金額2萬元人民幣,呢個時勢3厘都算幾高息,分分鐘拍得住iBond,如你手上本身都有多少人民幣,都可以考慮下。

昔日積極擔存款既華僑永亨,3至12個月期微加5點子,其中6個月見2.65厘,起存金額10萬元人民幣;大眾香港3個月期則由1.5厘加至1.7厘。

綜觀各大銀行,人民幣息口普遍「短息低、長息高」,3厘以上的高息主要集中於1年期,其中建行亞洲達3.4厘,起存金額10萬元,另渣打香港、永隆、信銀國際、工銀亞洲的1年期存款亦有3厘以上高息。

銀行向中小企閂水喉 暫停機器融資業務

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【on.cc東網專訊】 香港經濟環境轉差,中小型企業與廠商首當其衝受影響,消息透露,有港資銀行全面暫停機器融資業務,有銀行則減少批出同類貸款,以致相關貸款組合較高峰期銳減逾半。與此同時,財務公司根據風險胃納調整業務,有財務公司負責人直言「睇唔透」前景,決定全面暫停企業營運用途的按揭貸款。

銀行界消息透露,近月有港資銀行在企業跨境貸款持續錄得壞帳,由於機器融資等若要追討或收回抵押,牽涉跨境及法律等因素,行政成本較高,已決定暫停有關業務。此外,有銀行則減少批出同類貸款,令機器融資的貸款組合,較高峰期萎縮超過一半至不足10億元。

●財仔唔接營運用樓按
香港出口持續下跌,銀行界透露,近年以貿易客戶為增長動力的銀行同受影響,原因是銀行批出貸款予貿易商一般要有訂單支持,出口下跌意味訂單減少,「冇訂單銀 行想做生意都冇得做」。事實上,金管局數字顯示,今年首季銀行業貸款錄得年率化負增長0.6%,反映銀行整體貸款萎縮。

銀行融資轉趨困難,中小企只有轉向財務公司尋求融資,但因前景不明朗,有財務公司負責人透露,暫停企業營運用途的按揭貸款。

●商家冀批「救命錢」鬆手
香港工業總會主席劉展灝表示,政府的八成信貸擔保計劃(SFGS)對中小企融資有幫助,但若貸款用作擴充業務較難獲批。他又說,經濟欠佳時,銀行收緊貸款是可以理解,但希望銀行對短期訂單減少而非運作有問題的企業,可以抱較寬鬆的態度,而每次當經濟下滑,廠商會增加向財務公司借款,實屬迫不得已,風險會較高,特別是廠商毛利率跌至較低水平,要留意利潤有機會不足以覆蓋利息開支。

花旗商業銀行香港主管郭炬廷表示,由於市場貸款需求持續放緩, 今年首季花旗商業銀行中小企貸款金額按年錄得輕微跌幅,但新增中小企客戶持續增加。對於近期有沒有收緊貸款審批,他說該行有一套既定風險管理準則,不會因 為市況而改變,若客戶希望透過SFGS融資,該行會全力協助及配合。

●銀行反駁政策無改變
恒生銀行(00011)商務理財業務總監袁妙齡表示,該行沒有收緊中小企貸款政策,又指整個業務不會因為市況而輕易改變。事實上,該行去年第4季起加強中小企服務,包括在旗下8個商業理財中心派駐客戶經理,為中小企提供一條龍服務。

21 財務董事莫耀強表示,廠商面對「拖數」的情況愈來愈普遍,令到中小企融資需求增加,今年三月以來公司的生意量較去年第4季平均增加20%。他又說,該公司以樓按為主,接受中小企抵押物業,基於風險考慮,會視乎企業貸款用途、訂單及現金流等,一般中小企抵押物業獲取1年期貸款周轉,期間每月還息不還本。

2016年5月29日 星期日

舊中區警署冧樓  已婚督察宿舍頹垣敗瓦

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【on.cc東網專訊】 位於中環荷李活道、俗稱「大館」的舊中區警署,晚上10時許懷疑外牆倒塌,傳出隆然巨響,大堆鐵枝及磚頭跌出路面,途人見狀報警。消防員接報趕至現場,進 入警署內進行搜救,初步得悉倒冧外牆面積約8米乘10米,未知是否有人受傷。據悉,倒冧位置為有150年歷史的舊已婚督察宿舍。

舊中區警署現交由賽馬會文物保育有限公司進行活化,該公司諮詢委員會委員、兼中西區區議員的鄭麗琼表示,對事件感到震驚,現正趕往現場了解情況,她又擔心今次事故,會影響活化後的舊中區警署開放日期。

倒塌的已婚督察宿舍興建於1862年至1864年間,屬於建築群內其中一幢最早期的建築物,中區警署建築群廣場東端有4幢警察宿舍,分別名為A、B、C、D座,均採用磚木結構,B座為已婚督察宿舍,高層有部分房間設有懸臂式露台,可以眺望廣場環境。

位於中環的前中區警署(俗稱大館)、中央裁判司署及前域多利監獄古蹟建築群,快將完成活化工程,將於年底重現市民眼前。古蹟建築群多幢大樓外牆均被翻新及進行內部裝修,而前域多利監獄近奧卑利街的石牆大門部分則被鑿走,旁邊有新加建的奧卑利美術館,其他部分的石牆以及位於亞畢諾道的石牆大門則獲保留。而奧卑利美術館及亞畢諾綜藝館加建於古蹟建築群原有大樓之間。

It may be the end of hedge funds as we know it

就連對沖基金就來玩完, 散戶又點會贏 !

finance.yahoo.com





These investors take big risks betting on the market, but the reward has usually been pretty significant.

Based on recent outlooks, however, the reign of these "masters" may be coming to an end.

Everywhere you look, it appears that doom and gloom is surrounding the industry. From competitors to analysts and even to the managers of hedge funds themselves, everyone is acknowledging that these funds are going through a rough patch.

It's all over

Let's get the obvious out of the way: hedge fund performance is abysmal. Funds are underperforming their benchmarks and many are losing investors money. For an industry that is founded on the idea that it can produce alpha, or better returns than the broad market, even being in-line is a disappointment.

Hedge funds typically charge high fees to deliver the alpha to their investors.

When they're not performing, more attention is paid to these fees. That focus has coincided with the growth of lower cost alternatives, such as liquid alternatives, which provide hedge fund-like investments with lower fees.

Add that up and you've got some problems. Tony James, president of private equity giant Blackstone, told Bloomberg this week that he expects a quarter of all current assets in hedge funds to be yanked out in the next year.

"It’s kind of a day of reckoning that we face here,” James told Bloomberg TV. “There will be a shrinkage in the industry and it will be painful. That’s going to be pretty painful for an awful lot of places.”

A 25% drop in assets might sound pretty dramatic, but there are those who think it may be even worse. K.C. Nelson at alternative investor Driehaus Capital Management, expects a brutal reduction in the number of funds over the next few years.

"I believe there will be a culling of hedge funds like we've never seen before," he said in a letter to investors. "I'd estimate the number of funds gets cut in half over the next couple of years."

Even Dan Loeb, manager of the hedge fund Third Point, said that it has been "one of the most catastrophic periods of hedge fund performance" and that many funds won't survive.

"There is no doubt that we are in the first innings of a washout in hedge funds and certain strategies," he said in a letter to investors in April.

Now questions are being asked about the entire hedge fund business model.

According to Brian Balter, CEO of Balter Capital Management, the model has broken down, and there is nothing to do to repair it.

"The mechanism to grow a hedge fund broke, the hedge fund capital raising mechanism broke," he told Business Insider.

Balter, whose firm runs a fund of funds and liquid alts strategy, said that hedge funds start by getting seed money from a high-net worth family office. Then the fund-of-fund community would help build the fund from there, until the hedge fund became institutionally viable and larger pension plans would invest to grow it even further.

Now, according to Balter, there is such a proliferation of hedge funds that many family offices are skeptical of investing because they aren't seeing the growth.

The middle ground made up of fund-of-funds is also struggling, or in Balter's words "D-E-A-D, dead" and receiving redemptions.

Finally, pension funds from California to New York are starting to pull their money out of hedge funds.

"It's over for hedge funds," said Balter. "Yes, there will be hedge fund-like structures, but this is not a cyclical thing, it's a secular thing that has been been building up for a long time."

This too shall pass

To some in the industry, however, all is not lost. Many hedge fund managers have said this is simply a cyclical event and a case of too much attention being lavished on hedge fund performance.

"Today's reports of hedge fund redemptions totaling $15 billion in Q1 2016 might sound like a big shift in favor from the sector, but it is important to note that this represents only around half of one per cent of total AUM invested," wrote Jack Inglis, CEO of the hedge fund industry trade group Alternative Investment Management Association in a recent blog post.

"Outflows from equity and bond mutual funds over the same period have been much more."

Inglis also noted that hedge funds have outperformed most other investment strategies over the past 25 years, so to take the short-term view would be unwise. 

This may actually be a good thing

The thing is, the closure of many hedge funds may end up being a good thing for managers in the long run. Not for all managers, obviously, but for those that can make it through the tough times.

Currently there are a large number of hedge funds. In a June 2015, a report showed that there were a record 10,149 registered hedge funds. The staggering number of funds has "polluted" the returns of hedge funds, said Balter, as all of these big-time firms chase the same ideas.

Steve Cohen of Point72 Asset Management has decried the crowding of trades by hedge funds, making it impossible to anyone to generate returns.

So whether you call it a "culling" or a "washout", decreasing the number of funds investing could allow the survivors a little more elbow room to operate.

Only time will tell.

生活通識:報稅限期將至 袋穩6貼士唔使慌

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【on.cc東網專訊】 話說稅務局喺5月3日已發出超過250萬份報稅表,收到綠色信封嘅你記住於1個月內交表,數數手指,報稅月即將進入尾聲,ACCA香港分會稅務委員會主席殷國煒同大家分享多個報稅貼士,袋穩佢哋每年報稅都無有怕啦!

(1)網上報稅可延至7月3日
除咗郵寄稅表外,稅務局近年積極推廣網上報稅,唔單止可以延期1個月(即7月3日前報),查實你登入嘅時候,入面好多基本資料已經預先填妥,話晒香港人啲時間好寶貴,有9萬幾樣嘢要做,上網只需填物業、父母子女免稅額、其他收入等,都省下不少工夫。

(2)如何網上報稅?
如果你係第一次上網報稅,你先要準備稅表上的稅務編號去申請「稅務易通行密碼」,然後於「稅務易」開立個人帳戶。若你有個人數碼證書亦可以登入「稅務易」。

如你大頭蝦忘記稅務編號或通行密碼,甚或未能於報稅表找到稅務編號,可於「稅務易」按下「忘記稅務編號/通行密碼」連結,可從個人電郵收取以上資料。

(3)自僱人士有咩稅務責任?
近期愈來愈多人自己開時裝店、網店,殷國煒提醒各位自僱人士要填寫利得稅嗰部分,記得要「紀律一點,唔好心存僥倖漏報」,同埋至少要keep番7年收入同支出嘅業務紀錄。

(4)如何為父母申請扣除開支?
殷國煒亦指,報稅人不能同時申請扣除長者住宿照顧開支及供養父母免稅額,假如你已為年滿60歲以上的媽媽支付5萬港元的院舍費用,由於供養父母免稅上限為4萬港元,而長者住宿照顧開支扣除上限為8萬港元,在此情況下,申請扣除長者住宿照顧開支會較為有利。

(5)MPF扣稅額達1.8萬港元
好多人唔知原來可以係應課稅入息之中扣去強積金供款,2015至2016年最高可獲扣除額為1.8萬港元,殷國煒提醒,如果你一直都漏咗扣除MPF,可以喺6年內索取,不過當然要提交足夠資料啦!

(6)遲咗報稅會點?
香港有唔少大忙人,殷國煒話遲咗報稅可大可少,最高可以徵收全部欠款嘅3倍,都咪話唔少,唔講唔知原來有一個叫追討欠稅組,稅局可採取司法行動追收欠款,就算你去天涯海角都走唔甩,查實納稅人晨早都知自己要交稅,點解唔乖乖地儲定兩個錢呢?!

服中藥注意!田七花含農藥超歐盟標準313倍

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【on.cc東網專訊】 香港對多種中藥材農藥及重金屬等含量沒有明確法例規管,分分鐘令市民中毒。有政黨於4月至5月在市面上購買多種常用中藥材,包括枸杞子、金銀花、田七花、 菊花、生地黃、當歸頭及北沙參等共12款產品作測試樣本。結果發現,當中7個樣本均含農藥,其中一個知名品牌的田七花,更含高達22種農藥,當中6種農藥超標嚴重,超標約115倍至313倍不等。

民主黨抽查了12種中藥材樣本,委託政府認可化驗所化驗,並用歐盟的標準作基礎,結果發現7種樣本農藥超標。當中一款田七花含「多菌靈」超標最高,達313倍;多菌靈多用於除害劑,民主黨引述外國研究指,多菌靈有機會影響荷爾蒙及致癌,並影響胎兒發育,但產品包裝沒有寫明孕婦忌服,只寫明慎服。

雖然測試樣本所含農藥大多屬低毒性,但一個枸杞子樣本所含的「速滅磷」超標6倍,世衞定義速滅磷為劇毒,對人體有害。另外又抽查了樣本所含的重金屬及二氧化硫含量,發現一隻金銀花含鉛量達每公斤3000微克,根據香港中醫藥管理委員會制訂的標準,每日服用鉛含量上限是179微克。

立法會議員黃碧雲表示,衞生署現時每月只抽查約30個中藥材樣本送交政府化驗,亦只對37種農藥殘留量進行測試,但市面上有多達300多種農藥,規管明顯不足。她又批評政府對中藥材的重金屬及二氧化硫含量沒有規管標準,敦促政府盡快修訂中醫藥條例, 以及公開化驗標準,增加化驗的農藥項目。民主黨明日會將上述化驗報告轉交衞生署參考。

2016 1oz Niue Disney - Dumbo 75th Anniversary Silver Proof Coin

Year     2016
Metal Content     1 oz
Denomination     $2
Purity     999
Diameter (mm)     40
Condition     Proof
Country     Niue
Manufacturer     New Zealand Mint
Mintage     10,000
Box & Certificate     Yes

呢枚小飛象精製銀幣在LPM買609蚊, 附有外盒和証書, 送俾小男孩都會受歡迎 !

U Passed Tax ID Numbers for Everyone

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The EU is laying the groundwork for everyone in Europe to be given a new tax ID number in preparation for moving to electronic money. They are using a National Insurance number pretense to disguise the real objective. This scheme was passed by the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee last week. This is another step in the federalization of Europe and even the British will have to comply. Naturally, nobody will report this in Britain because it obviously calls for a European Taxpayer Identification Number to keep track of every EU citizen, which include the British. The actual the European Commission text reads:

“Proper identification of taxpayers is essential to effective exchange of information between tax administrations. The creation of European Taxpayer Identification Number (EU TIN) would provide the best means for this identification. It would allow any third party to quickly, easily and correctly identify and record TINs in cross-border relations and serve as a basis for effective automatic exchange of information between member states tax administrations.”

This covert maneuver calls for the EU to take over member states’ corporate taxation powers with a common corporation tax base for Europe as a whole. The British corporations are suddenly going to taste the bitter bite of Europeans socialism and watch their taxes sky-rocket. That should help increase unemployment in Britain at a far faster pace than expected. This new legislation is banning sovereign member states from increasing their competitiveness by cutting corporation tax below 15%. Brussels is eliminating independence within Europe on taxes and this enables Brussels to be handed the ability to track every EU taxpayer, laying the foundations for a new European tax and to prevent competitive taxation to lure in companies from other members to help reduce local unemployment.

The Shocking Reason Why China Will Send The Price Of Silver Skyrocketing Over $100!

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With so much focus on the West’s massive money printing schemes, here is the shocking reason why China will send the price of silver skyrocketing over $100.

Stephen Leeb:  “Whatever your views about climate change, the reality is that the world as a whole is rushing to replace fossil fuels with renewable energies (along with nuclear, which is so plentiful that for all intents and purposes it can count as renewable). And while in recent articles we’ve focused on the forthcoming massive bull market ahead in gold, the transition to renewables will mean at least comparable opportunities for investors in another metal: silver, which is destined to soar into triple-digit territory

Stephen Leeb continues:  “While gold’s rise will mainly reflect its role as a currency as commodity shortages emerge, silver – which also has a history over the millennia as a precious metal – possesses special qualities as an industrial metal that will give it an added kick. For instance, it’s one of the best conductors of both electricity and heat, giving silver a critical role in industrial applications ranging from automobiles to computers and mobile phones (and virtually all modern electronic devices).

Silver Playing A Massive Role In Renewable Enegery
 

And of rising importance as the world seeks to move away from fossil fuels, silver is also a critical component in photovoltaics, a renewable energy whose growth over the past decade has been spectacular at nearly 100-fold. In 2006 photovoltaics was just a twinkle in European and Middle Eastern eyes. Recently China has been leading its growth: in the past five years, China has counted for around 50 percent of solar’s gains.

Shocking Chinese Demand To Send Silver Prices Skyrocketing
 

Looking ahead, estimates of growth in photovoltaics between 2015 and 2020 range from about 250 gigawatts (the IEA) to well over 400 gigawatts (Bloomberg New Energy). Moreover, virtually all reputable researchers expect accelerating growth through at least the next decade. China had installed about 45 gigawatts of photovoltaics by 2015. It aims for 1000 gigawatts  by 2030, nearly five times what the entire world has installed today.

Basic math shows what this means for silver consumption. Today it 
takes about 2.8 million ounces of silver to produce one gigawatt of solar power. If we assume that about 650 gigs will be installed worldwide by 2020, simple multiplication and division tell us that about 35,000 tons of silver, or 1 billion ounces, will be needed by 2020.

And photovoltaics constitutes just one part of the demand side for silver. Demand for silver for computers, the internet of things, and, indeed anything electronic – and for coins and jewelry, especially in the East – will also continue to grow. But solar energy will be responsible for the greatest growth in demand.

World To Face Massive Silver Shortages
 

So where will all this extra silver come from? According GFMS, a division of Thompson and Reuters, silver supplies have peaked. In its most recent analysis it sums up the supply situation as follows: “Declining total supply is expected to be a key driver of annual deficits in the silver market going forward.” In other words, when you combine the basic demand math along with supply assumptions, the world is facing a five-year supply shortage that amounts to more than one year of production, or enough to draw down to nearly zero all the aboveground silver inventories that might be used to fill the gap.

After 2020, increasing silver demand will mean increasing rationing of the metal, which can only be done by via extraordinarily high prices. Of the world’s major countries, only China seems to get the message and to be preparing for this eventuality, with China’s recent silver imports soaring to five-year highs. Meanwhile, U.S. imports have stagnated.

Barring a miracle, silver prices are going to the moon, leaving the U.S. in a very difficult position. It would not surprise us one bit if silver is confiscated much like gold was during the Depression. This means, as was the case with gold, the best investments are likely to be silver producers. Over the next decade almost all credible silver producers could see their prices multiply by anywhere from 10- to 100-fold. 

東方日報B2:囍逸328萬搶上車客 粉嶺二手大鑊

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【on.cc東網專訊】 上車新盤戰況激烈,陸續有發展商低價開盤搶客,信置(00083) 粉嶺囍逸獲批預售文件後,昨日火速開價,首批60伙折實平均呎價9,931元,平過區內新盤樓價,入場費更低見328.5萬元搶上車客,業界料勢必打殘區內以至新界東二手市。另外,昨日周末爆8新盤混戰,其中主打上車客的會德豐地產將軍澳SAVANNAH銷情報捷,開售兩周沽近510伙,套現逾27億元。

信置營業部聯席董事田兆源表示,囍逸首批單位開價比同區同類型一手樓盤低15%,屬吸引價,旨在協助買家上車,估計整批單位以定價計市值3.1億元。

他續說,該盤將於今日起開放示範單位及展覽廳予公眾參觀,並開始收票。

據價單資料,囍逸首批60伙,面積介乎294至645方呎,一至三房間隔,定價計呎價介乎10,780至12,852元,扣除即供付款、會員、限時等共 12.7%樓價折扣優惠後,折實呎價介乎9,411至11,220元,售價由328.5萬至643.6萬元,其中一房戶售價全部在400萬元以內。

美聯物業住宅部行政總裁布少明表示,囍逸入場呎價不足萬元,較同區二手新進屋苑價格還要低,加上300餘萬元可上車,短期內勢必凍結市場購買力,估計粉嶺甚至東鐵沿線二手市場難免受到衝擊。

區內代理指,粉嶺聯和墟一帶樓齡較新的逸峯,現時二手呎價逾1萬元,相比下囍逸入場呎價低約6%。至於樓齡10餘年的聯和墟「三寶」屋苑帝庭軒、御庭軒及綠悠軒,呎價介乎8,600餘至9,900餘元。

事實上,近期上車客成為發展商爭搶對象,單是昨日已有8個新盤同步加推單位應市,共涉166伙。當中佔最多為將軍澳SAVANNAH,雖然昨日展開第4輪銷 售,但新一批80伙仍然受捧,揀樓氣氛踴躍。會德豐地產常務董事黃光耀表示,對該盤昨日銷情感滿意,估計項目推出以來,逾四成買家為年輕上車客。

發展商昨傍晚時指,該盤新一輪銷售反應理想,開售短短兩星期累沽近510伙,佔670伙推出單位中逾75%,套現逾27億元。據悉,該盤昨日速沽30餘伙。

另外,以高成數按揭吸客的嘉里建設(00683)屯門滿名山,發展商指即日沽21伙,佔新推出單位逾五成。昨同步加推的恒地(00012)馬頭角迎豐及長沙灣海柏匯,消息指均錄成交,後者更沽7伙。

潘梓生:金價跌勢可望暫緩

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【on.cc東網專訊】 亞達盟環球期貨客戶經理潘梓生在東方產經「錢途」專欄表示,市場近期焦點仍然集中在聯儲局加息步伐當中。近日有聯儲局官員表示,英國於6月23日的脫歐公 投將影響聯儲局的加息決定,令投資者對6月加息的預期稍為降溫,並認為7月才是加息的合適時間點。

不過,近日一項最新民調顯示,55%受訪者支持留歐,而且官方積極游說選民支持留歐,同時愈近投票選民選擇愈傾向選擇保守的一方,故筆者相信英國脫歐機會不大。因此,除非美國經濟數據與預期相差甚遠,否則美國加息事在必行,6月及7月的時機點反而對市場影響有限。

金價在前幾個月受多國實施負利率所支持,一度突破1,300美元;但踏入5月金價則開始受到美國加息擔憂所打壓,並一度下探1,210美元的支持位。美匯指 數近日觸及95.5的阻力,同時金價觸及1,210美元支持位後反彈,似乎正正配合市場預期加息時間點延後至七月的想法。

金價於本年2月後持續處於1,210美元以上橫行,相信近日金價連跌七日後,稍微超賣應有所反彈。另外美匯指數短期亦傾向於95至95.5區間波動,金價應先行覓得一定支持,短期應於1,210至1,230美元上落。

敍利亞爛面傳染病蔓延 恐隨難民入歐

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【on.cc東網專訊】 主要由沙蠅傳播的皮膚利什曼病(cutaneous leishmaniasis)在敍利亞肆虐,特別在極端回教組織「伊斯蘭國」(IS)治下地區。患者被病原昆蟲叮咬後,會出現潰瘍等皮膚病變。由於大多患 者都是難民,已蔓延至鄰國,專家恐隨着大批難民湧入歐洲,可能進一步擴散。

英國傳媒昨日報道,皮膚利什曼病是一種可毀容的熱帶病,由寄生 蟲利什曼原蟲引起,嚴重可引致呼吸和吞嚥困難、鼻出血,甚至終生疤痕和殘疾,主要出現在中東、中亞、美洲等貧困地區。敍利亞因內戰而廢墟處處,長期缺水, 成為沙蠅的繁殖溫床。加上醫院受破壞、醫療人手短缺,令疫情擴散。人道組織「紅新月會庫爾德分會」(Kurdish Red Crescent)曾指出,IS將腐屍棄於街頭,亦疫情蔓延的主因。

近年不少患病的難民外逃,令疫情蔓延至土耳其、黎巴嫩和約旦等鄰國。 黎巴嫩由2000年至2012年間錄得6宗病例,急增至2013年的1033宗,其中96%為敍利亞難民;土耳其、約旦、利比亞和也門亦出現數百宗病例, 恐歐洲亦會失守。專家呼籲及早應對此病,監察疫情及改善難民營環境。

肉毒中毒:港大深圳醫院驚揭4女連環中伏

真正的愛靚唔愛命 !

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【on.cc東網專訊】 47歲港女於內地注射肉毒桿菌毒素,懷疑肉毒中毒,情況穩定後不聽勸告自行離院,衞生署昨日(28日)成功聯絡上該名病人,惟病人只透露曾於本月15日到 過深圳,拒絕透露其他詳情。有消息傳出,患者赴內地試打針並打算「入貨」,打針後曾於內地求醫,且差不多同一時間,香港大學深圳醫院急症室至少有4名女患 者出現肉毒中毒徵狀求醫。食物及衞生局局長高永文表示事件不在香港發生,需要搜集更多資料才可評論。

衞生署早前公布,該名47歲港女到內 地一美容處所為兩邊小腿注射肉毒桿菌毒素後,懷疑肉毒中毒,5月21日到明愛醫院急症室求醫並需入住深切治療部,至27日情況穩定後不聽勸告出院,此後失 聯。據了解,該名病人從事小本經營的美容業,非醫護人員,打針後不適求醫;而同一時間,港大深圳醫院急症室接獲首宗肉毒中毒個案,患者需要邀香港中毒諮詢 中心專家北上會診,並從重慶取得「解藥」及時搶救;接獲該個案後,深院短期內再有3名在內地注射肉毒桿菌毒素的深圳女患者,聞訊接連求診,相信今次出事的 港女非單一個案,而是接二連三有同類中毒個案發生。衞生署昨指,已成功聯絡病人,但病人只透露幾時上過深圳,沒透露其他資料。

高永文出席 活動時,呼籲該名病人返院跟進治療,直至完全康復。他又提到在香港注射藥物程序必須由註冊醫護人員施行;若沒正式註冊或授權情況下擁有或使用受管制藥物, 亦可能違反香港法例。換言之,若有非註冊醫護人員同時未經醫生處方,將肉毒桿菌毒素針劑帶來香港,有機會觸犯法例。

香港美容業總會創會主席葉世雄表示,未聞有美容業界自行赴內地試貨、入貨,形容此舉冒險:「與其可能犯法,不如同醫生合作啦!」他又稱,目前香港提供的肉毒桿菌毒素注射服務的美容中心,大部分都有醫生負責程序,勸市民要找信譽好、有合資格醫生的美容中心注射。

私人執業的皮膚科專科醫生陳厚毅則提醒,注射毒素的劑量過高、打錯肌肉位、打錯血管都有機會致肉毒中毒,後者經血液游走到呼吸肌肉等位置,便會出現呼吸困難等情況。外國更有例子因中毒致嚴重呼吸困難死亡。

生活通識:沙膠擦原子筆跡 錯足幾十年!

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【on.cc東網專訊】 擦紙膠、又名膠擦,大人細路都總會用過擦走鉛筆字,其中一種硬身叫做「沙膠」,就係專門用來擦走原子筆字……如果你都係咁諗就錯晒啦!近日有外國傳媒報 道,原來沙膠都係用來擦走鉛筆字,不過就主力擦去寫在較厚或較粗糙的紙張上。消息可謂顛覆了一直以來的知識,問題當年係邊個誤導我,整到擦爛咁多張紙!

不少人在小時候或是讀書時,都有用過這種整個立體平行四邊形的雙頭擦紙膠,一邊紅一邊藍,紅色部分較軟身,用來擦走鉛筆字,而原子筆墨因會滲入紙張表層,而 沙膠通常硬身,故能擦甩紙表層,連帶擦走原子筆跡,不過擦完通常連紙都會薄埋,一不小心就會整穿張紙。外國媒體報道,藍色沙膠部分原本設計用作擦去較粗糙 紙張上的鉛筆字,例如在卡紙或木紋紙上,甚至並非畫在紙張上的鉛筆字。

翻查紀錄,早在1770年已有英國化學家發現一種可以擦去鉛筆字的 植物膠,至1858年一名美國費城市民將擦膠嵌入鉛筆尾部而取得一項專利,但後來該設計被判定只是將兩項已有的東西混合一起,而非新產品,最終該專利被取 消。如果事件屬實,即過去246年來從未有人為原子筆字發明「原子筆擦字膠」,只是「民間智慧」把沙膠用途轉到擦走原子筆字跡,印證了「窮則變、變則通、 通則達」的道理。

但時至今日,再出現用原子筆寫錯字,相信大部分人已會改用塗改液或者改錯帶。

富人思想

成日見到有幾位blogger 寫乜[富人思想]都好少睇, 都唔知佢地講乜 ?

不過剛見到一個網誌, 大家一定要睇 : 100happysouls.blogspot.hk

百樂先生白手興家又好熱心出來幫助年輕人創業, 是一位好學習的對象 !

見到佢寫選老婆條件, 本人須用一晚時間去思考是否太過份了呢 ?

不過企在一個媽媽的立場, 本人絕是同意的, 而本人家庭仔女都做到了, 因為有一個好老婆的幫手, 唔好講致富, 也是一個幸福家庭的基礎 !

以前的印象去美國讀野雞學校不會有好出路, 但只要自己有上進心而堅持, 有好機遇都可以變億萬富豪 !

2016年5月28日 星期六

陪伴兒童小憶機械人 首發售價2999元人仔

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【on.cc東網專訊】 內媒報道,小憶機械人正式在北京發布,該款產品定位3-8歲兒童主陪伴,主要功能可實現語音識別交互,通過聯網實現遠程視頻通話、遠程監控以及針對兒童的互動教育等。

目前小憶機械人已獲得奇虎360和凌越資本3000萬元人民幣A輪,並且加入360智能生態鏈陣營,產品將於5月30日正式在360商城首發,首發售價2999元人民幣。

硬件配置方面,小憶機械人配備了400萬像素全玻璃攝像頭,7英寸顯示屏,搭載1024×600分辨率,內嵌豐富表情包,重量3kg,尺寸375×208×173mm。續航能力4-6小時。配套APP應用支持iOS和Android系統。

從現場的體驗環節來看,小憶機械人可識別並記憶家庭成員,並根據特點和習慣定制不同的互動對話。官方稱,小憶機械人可以判斷出對話者的語氣、心情,然後做出不一樣的回答。

小憶機械人還可以通過自動人臉識別,在用戶下達拍照指令後,實現自動拍照。此外,小憶會在日常生活中主動抓拍孩子的嬉戲照片,並將其推送到父母手機端,讓家長實時掌握孩子動態。

孩子可以通過視頻功能向父母發起通話,只需要簡單發出打電話給爸爸/媽媽即可實現。同步設計的家庭監控功能,也可以在一些特定場合監護家庭安全。

幼兒教育方面,小憶機械人目前已經與喜馬拉雅電台、美國highlights、貝瓦音樂和360音樂簽訂了內容合作協議。在幼兒玩耍時,用兒童喜愛的方式獲取知識。

另外,小憶機械人是固定式設計,並不能實現水平移動。產品本身則可以實現360度旋轉,並且根據聲音來源轉向,幫助拍攝一些生活化的視頻和照片。

Sharp機械人智能手機 日本開售約1.4萬元

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【on.cc東網專訊】 外媒報道,Sharp概念智能手機RoBoHon已經在日本開售,它是世界上首款機械人智能手機,起售價為19.8萬日圓(約1.4萬港元)。

Sharp 表示,這是你從未見過的人形智能手機。它看起來就像個機械人玩具,用戶可以用其背部屏幕檢查電子郵件和其他文本信息。當有來電時,RoBoHon可以直接 向你走去。此外,RoBoHon甚至可拍攝照片,並將其投射到牆壁上觀看。當你忙著時,可以代你接電話或回覆短信。

RoBoHon也可以充當個人助理,能夠提醒你重要事件。它擁有獨立攝像頭,可以為你提供觀看視頻服務。為了紀念發布活動,Sharp在東京開設了RoBoHon Cafe,遊客可以於6月7日之前在這裡體驗機械人手機。

RoBoHon站起來大約有19.5厘米高,重量約390克,它使用1.2GHz四核處理器,支持LTE和Wi-Fi。儘管體型稍大,但其屏幕僅有2英寸。它可與安卓對話,提供大量應用程序。

RoBoHon還能利用前置攝像頭識別人臉,然後叫出他們的名字。RoBoHon的電池為1700毫安,可持續講話410分鐘。

Sharp每月可以生產5,000部RoBoHon,並致力於成為機械人手機領域的領導者。

留美華女乘車講普通話 遭白人女子打斷鼻骨

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【on.cc東網專訊】 中國留學生在美國的人身安全問題再度引起關注。亞利桑那州坦佩市(Tempe)上周發生一宗針對華人的仇恨犯罪事件。中國女大學生石曉琳(Xiaolin Shi,音譯)乘坐輕軌時,因和朋友講普通話,遭到22歲的白人女子拉特萊奇(Kalie Rutledge)謾罵和毆打,導致面部多處受傷,鼻骨折斷,更一度失去知覺。

石曉琳是亞利桑那州立大學的本科生。當地時間20日晚上 10時30分左右,她在坦佩市的列車上,遭拉特萊奇的謾罵和毆打。石曉琳憶述,她在車上和朋友說普通話時,拉特萊奇走過來,嘴裏罵罵咧咧,叫嚷「你們滾回中國去」。石曉琳下車後,拉特萊奇也跟着下車,緊隨不捨地繼續對她喊叫,並揮拳猛擊向她的臉部。

石曉琳稱,被打後一度失去知覺,醒來後發現自己倒在地上,滿臉是血。她的朋友也遭到攻擊,但傷勢不重。據報,石曉琳的鼻骨被打斷,眼睛被打腫,經治療後傷勢穩定,但仍有可能須做手術。

拉特萊奇在打人當晚即被警方逮捕,她被控嚴重攻擊罪,遭到扣押,周二在出庭後獲釋,將於下周二再度出庭。

TERRIFYING: Paul Craig Roberts – We Are Witnessing The Final Enslavement Of Humanity

在大家眼下發生的, 但無人擦覺的財富搶劫 !

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Former U.S. Treasury Secretary, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, just warned we are now witnessing the final enslavement of humanity.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts:  Having successfully used the EU to conquer the Greek people by turning the Greek “leftwing” government into a pawn of Germany’s banks, Germany now finds the IMF in the way of its plan to loot Greece into oblivion.

The IMF’s rules prevent the organization from lending to countries that cannot repay the loan. The IMF has concluded on the basis of facts and analysis that Greece cannot repay. Therefore, the IMF is unwilling to lend Greece the money with which to repay the private banks…

The IMF says that Greece’s creditors, many of whom are not creditors but simply bought up Greek debt at a cheap price in hopes of profiting, must write off some of the Greek debt in order to lower the debt to an amount that the Greek economy can service.

Only A Few Robber Barons Will Be Left But Many Serfs
 

The banks don’t want Greece to be able to service its debt, because the banks intend to use Greece’s inability to service the debt in order to loot Greece of its assets and resources and in order to roll back the social safety net put in place during the 20th century. Neoliberalism intends to reestablish feudalism—a few robber barons and many serfs: the One Percent and the 99 percent.

The way Germany sees it, the IMF is supposed to lend Greece the money with which to repay the private German banks. Then the IMF is to be repaid by forcing Greece to reduce or abolish old age pensions, reduce public services and employment, and use the revenues saved to repay the IMF.

As these amounts will be insufficient, additional austerity measures are imposed that require Greece to sell its national assets, such as public water companies and ports and protected Greek islands to foreign investors, principally the banks themselves or their major clients.

So far the so-called “creditors” have only pledged to some form of debt relief, not yet decided, beginning in 2 years. By then the younger part of the Greek population will have emigrated and will have been replaced by immigrants fleeing Washington’s Middle Eastern and African wars who will have loaded up Greece’s unfunded welfare system.

In other words, Greece is being destroyed by the EU that it so foolishly joined and trusted. The same thing is happening to Portugal and is also underway in Spain and Italy. The looting has already devoured Ireland and Latvia (and a number of Latin American countries) and is underway in Ukraine.

The current newspaper headlines reporting an agreement being reached between the IMF and Germany about writing down the Greek debt to a level that could be serviced are false. No “creditor” has yet agreed to write off one cent of the debt. All that the IMF has been given by so-called “creditors” is unspecific “pledges” of an unspecified amount of debt writedown two years from now.

The newspaper headlines are nothing but fluff that provide cover for the IMF to succumb to pressure and violate its own rules. The cover lets the IMF say that a (future unspecified) debt writedown will enable Greece to service the remainder of its debt and, therefore, the IMF can lend Greece the money to pay the private banks.

IMF & Mainstream Media Playing Their Roles In The Enslavement
 

In other words, the IMF is now another lawless Western institution whose charter means no more than the US Constitution or the word of the US government in Washington.

The media persists in calling the looting of Greece a “bailout.” To call the looting of a country and its people a “bailout” is Orwellian. The brainwashing is so successful that even the media and politicians of looted Greece call the financial imperialism that Greece is suffering a “bailout.”

Everywhere in the Western world a variety of measures, both corporate and governmental, have resulted in the stagnation of income growth. In order to continue to report profits, mega-banks and global corporations have turned to looting. Social Security systems and public services–and in the US even the TSA airline security screening–are targeted for privatization, and indebtedness so accurately described by John Perkins in his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, is used to set up entire countries to be looted.

We have entered the looting stage of capitalism. Desolation will be the result.

Andrew Maguire – Ignore The Pullback, Gold To Surge Above $1,400 On The Next Leg Higher

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Today whistleblower and London metals trader Andrew Maguire told King World News that KWN readers around the world should ignore the pullback in the gold market because the price of gold will surge above $1,400 on the next leg higher.

Andrew Maguire:  “Whenever we see such a synthetic divergence develop between the wholesale physical markets and the paper-centric non-delivery markets, it allows the commercials (and central planners), who have exposure to the physical markets, to not only take the short side of these naked longs, but to do so with impunity…

Andrew Maguire continues:  “Bear in mind that the bulk of these naked short commercial positions were only able to be added above rising aggregated physical interest levels, but exponentially larger in defense of the Rubicon line at $1,308, a breach of which would threaten what is known as a ‘commercial signal failure.’ We came close to triggering this commercial signal failure but without the close proximity of an underpinning physical market, a short term price gap had been opened which was easy for commercials to fill on the downside

Ignore Pullback, Gold To Hit $1,400 On The Next Leg Higher
 

That is exactly what we have just witnessed — a price gap that closed on the downside, and as is par for the course, we now have the same hot money rinsed and wrong-footed, which is the polar inverse situation of what was occurring near $1,300. The hot money is now overshooting to the downside while the commercials are profitably covering all the naked shorts they added. Commercials are also going long to hedge physical exposure at these levels. This action is no more than healthy backfilling with a fresh, higher stair step being cemented for a sustainable move into and eventually through the $1,300’s.

We are at The Edge of Meltdown

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We will have the BREXIT report out next week. This is incredibly important for the fate of Europe hangs in the balance. Politicians are only interested in saving their own jobs. They do not care about the people and the markets reflect this arrogance.

Nobody has seen a chart of the Euro v British Pound since the floating rate system began. We had to take the formula used and recreate it in time. You cannot use the ECU because the pound was included. This shows the dramatic high the Euro made against the pound in 1985. Even during the rally of 2008 when the Euro reached $1.60 on the greenback, it looks like a minor blip on this chart against the pound sterling. In 2015,  the Euro fell to .6937 against the pound and then rallied to close at .73750. We have a Yearly Bearish Reversal at .73450 which it avoided like many other markets for year-end 2015. If we elect this Yearly Bearish Reversal, this is warning new lows even against the British pound.

We are standing at the edge of a cliff in the middle of an ice age where government is trying to control the media, polls, rate agencies, you name it, all to try to manipulate society to serve their own goals. The bureaucracy today would easily start a war to retain power. That is what they do. We are the great unwashed and collateral damage is part of life for them. We can see a possible bright future if we can really reform government. But they will never surrender willingly. We have to crash and burn to reach the other side,

Everything from gold and oil to the Dow and the euro are all trying to alert us there is something brewing here as we stand at the edge in the middle of nowhere. It is time to wake up before it is too late. We have to see the world markets are all connected and screaming at us, but the majority only focus on one or two markets and never see the wildcard coming from the other side.

耶倫:未來數月內加息可能合適

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【on.cc東網專訊】 聯儲局主席耶倫表示,美國就業市場逐漸向好,且勞動力市場以任何方式實際上都在改善,而美國經濟一直處於緩慢復甦之中,相信未來數月內加息可能是合適的。

她指出,過去通脹率都低於2%的目標,相信通脹缺口主要是油價下跌和美元走強所致,但未來數年仍預計通脹率回升至2%。

耶倫稱,勞動參與率已經提高,這令人振奮,勞動力市場可能會進一步增長,因為兼職人士仍渴望取得全職工作,反映勞動市場存在閒置問題。不過,美國產出增速意外地緩慢,坦言有關情況令人「苦不堪言」。

受耶倫有關言論影響,市場對加息預期升溫,刺激美元指數盤中急漲0.45,創日內新高至95.62。10年期美債收益率亦急升2.8個基點,至1.851%。不過,美股變動不大,道指現報17,833點,升4點;納指現報4,919點,升17點。

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【on.cc東網專訊】 美國聯儲局主席耶倫在哈佛大學講話指未來數月加息可能合適,市場對短期內加息預期升溫。

根據芝加哥商業交易所的數據,聯邦基金利率期貨目前顯示,投資者預計聯儲局6月加息的可能性為34%,較耶倫講話前升4個百分點;7月加息可能性62%,亦升4個百分點。

騙徒偽造ID樓契呃按貸 首5月8宗涉8700萬

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【on.cc東網專訊】 騙徒行騙手法層出不窮,近期樓市接連爆出多宗巨額騙案,騙徒利用假樓契、假身份證(ID),冒認業主向物業按揭財務公司明借暗搶,警方指有犯罪集團冒充業主按揭豪宅、一宗騙案便「搵食」千萬港元,今年首5個月便錄得8宗有關騙案,涉及損失金額逾8772萬港元,較去年的4800萬港元上升近八成;其中1宗 案件更涉及6個物業,騙徒穿梭數間財務公司成功「借出」5000多萬港元。

商罪科訛騙案調查組(調查組)督察毛杰昨日(27日)表示,由 2013年至今年5月,警隊共接獲52宗物業騙案,涉及損失金額高達2.3億港元,涉及物業單位亦有70多個,大部分為住宅單位。迄今拘捕32人,其中 10人已遭檢控,分別涉及欺詐、以欺騙手法取得利益及使用虛假文件。

騙徒犯案手法主要有三種,即冒認他人身份、提供虛假資料和以內地物業行騙;受害人繁多,如買家、業主、租客、財務公司、地產代理和銀行,當中財務公司佔總數的一半,相關公司損失高達2.13億港元,佔所有損失金額達九成三,其餘損失較大者則是買家和業主。

調查組總督察陳靜心指,今年首5個月已發生8宗案件,涉及13個物業,其中1宗案件更涉及6個物業,全部業主均為內地人,騙徒成功欺騙5100萬港元按揭貸款。騙徒首先會假冒業主身份到內地銀行開戶,再向財務公司進行首次按揭貸款,繼而利用各種方法掩飾破綻,如按期還款、做靚信貸紀錄後,就會再到另一間財務公司作二按,藉此取得更多貸款,最後提走所有貸款、逃之夭夭。1至2個月後,財務公司發現「業主」未有還款便出信追數,此時,真正業主才發現遭冒名借貸。

除詐騙財務公司外,亦有買家中招,騙徒調查目標樓宇的業主底細後,偽造與真正業主同名的身份證,然後在銀行開設「個人」戶口,繼而提出以較市價低的價錢放售 「自己」名下樓盤,惟買家想上門參觀單位時,騙徒就訛稱因租約問題未能安排等,最終買家難敵低樓價引誘,到律師樓簽訂買賣合約並繳付訂金,此時騙徒便提走支票或訂金,一去無蹤。最近更有騙徒假冒租客與業主簽署租約,然後再假扮業主聲稱放售,有關個案能讓買家參觀樓盤,令人更易中招。

調查組警司陳國豪指出,騙徒大多捨難取易,目標物業亦集中5至10年樓齡的樓宇,未做過按揭、業主並非在港居住的物業更成熱門落手對象。由於業主個人資料和按揭紀錄,騙徒可從土地註冊處等方面獲得,警方呼籲物業買賣各持份者需更謹慎。

鋼鐵貿戰吹響 中國危機加劇

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【on.cc東網專訊】 繼歐洲鋼鐵聯盟要求制裁中國之後,美國亦發起「337調查」,並實施高達5倍的反傾銷稅。一時間,中國鋼鐵出口連環遭受重擊,近日中國聲嘶力竭抗議亦難挽劣勢。

中國今年高舉「去庫存,去產能」旗幟,但鋼鐵業未成功削產能之前,已遭各國圍剿,關閉廠房亦意味大批工人下崗失業。在全球經濟疲弱底下,貿易戰及貨幣戰總是伴隨而來,中國經濟危機恐會進一步加劇。

其 實,中國要求歐盟承認其市場經濟地位早前遭到否決,多年來中國的紡織製衣、光伏組件及鋼材先後觸動歐美國家的神經,自由貿易的共贏神話早已褪色,就業不是 中國獨對的問題,歐洲多國失業率高企,美國就業雖有改善,但藍領工人仍受害最深,尤其科技取代許多傳統經濟的人手,各國於是將本身經濟停滯不前的成因找代 罪羊。

近年中國致力化解過剩的產能,可惜礙於內需疲弱,成效不彰,因此只能向外輸出,而去年催谷的「一帶一路」概念,亦多流於談判階段, 無異於望梅止渴。雖然中央決心在五年內削減一億多噸鋼鐵產能,但見效需時,中國鋼鐵產業短期內將繼續成為眾矢之的,在內憂外患之下,中國供給側改革及經濟 轉型談何容易,也難免增添幾分危機。

事實上,美國「337調查」近年涉及中國的案件愈來愈多,近者有針對通訊設備商,對中國鋼鐵業的打擊更是不遺餘力,令人擔心貿易保護主義崔護重來。

更令人憂慮的是美國正處於大選年,兩黨競逐出戰總統選舉的候選人為搶奪眼球,多次將矛頭指向中國,提出「中國搶掠」論,且成功獲得龐大的支持,正折射出美國的民粹排外及保護主義抬頭,相信未來的貿易摩擦將更頻繁,對自由貿易無疑是一大打擊。

其實,中國產品再以低價競爭已證實不合時宜,繼續做好產業升級轉型是必然之路,中國鋼鐵業看似犯了眾怒,究竟是中國的錯還是代罪羊,儘管各有各說法,惟五倍多的關稅等於斷絕中國鋼材出口美國的門路。

中國鋼企經已連年虧損,地方政府寧願提供巨額補貼,也不願鋼企倒閉帶來失業問題,殭屍企業仍苟延殘喘。中國辯稱鋼鐵產能是全球性問題,源於全球的需求不足,但中國正處於L形經濟,短期內難以復甦,去產能已不能再光說不練,經歷陣痛無可避免,危機加深更是不可不防。

瑞士富貴村公投 寧交罰款不收難民

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【on.cc東網專訊】 富甲一方的瑞士與世無爭,國民事無大小公投解決,稱為「公投之國」絕不誇張。月初,距蘇黎世不到20公里外的一條富貴小村莊發起公投,以極微差距通過實施「零收容」政策,寧向聯邦政府支付約220萬港元罰款也不收容10名難民。

上 維爾利利位於瑞士北部,由阿爾高州管轄,2000多名居民中至少300人是百萬富翁。瑞士聯邦政府要求全國26個州攤分難民收容責任,安頓偷渡到歐洲的 50000名難民。除夕夜德國科隆性侵事件令歐洲各地人士對難民戒心大增,富人聚居的上維爾利利本月1日舉行公投,以52%贊成、48%反對通過零收容政 策。

上維爾利利發言人、來自瑞士右翼人民黨的格拉爾納(Andreas Glarner)否認該村種族歧視,他解釋,貿然收容難民只會發出錯誤訊息,誘使更多人以身犯險偷渡歐洲。

2016年5月27日 星期五

星展:港銀今明2年或裁員 警惕連鎖反應

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【on.cc東網專訊】 星展銀行今發表報告指,香港的債務水平是亞洲最高,市場對港銀的資產質素更為關注,預計2017年銀行業裁員的人數會再增加。失業率趨升,對香港經濟帶來的連鎖影響不容忽視。

星展指,香港的債務水平於過去數年顯注增加,據國際結算銀行(BIS)數據,在去年第3季,香港非金融機構的信貸已佔GDP(本地生產總值)的285%,遠 超G20國家平均149%的水平。此外,中國經濟增長放緩,加上去產能化帶來的不確定性,都令市場擔心港銀有關內地貸款的資產質素會轉差。

報告指,香港未來數季的經濟增長將放緩,料銀行業的裁員行動有機會於今明兩年出現;銀行業去年佔香港GDP的17.1%及僱員人數的6.3%,故其裁員所帶來的連鎖反應不容輕視。

手機變微距相機 意大利設計外掛凸透鏡片

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【on.cc東網專訊】 智能手機的拍攝功能愈來愈拍得住相機,不過未必有微距、廣角這些特別功能。意大利早前有公司,在集資平台上推出了一款微距鏡頭貼片,讓手機也可近距離拍出細膩照片。

該款外掛式小配件Blips,是一張像貼紙般輕薄的凸透鏡片,經電腦精密計算後打磨而成。用家只需把它貼在任何型號的手機或平板電腦鏡頭上,就可以拍出如露珠、貓眼、布料纖維等的微距相片,細節一清二楚。

Blips基礎套裝含兩個不同放大率的鏡片,可放大10至100倍。而進階套裝The Lab Kit則包括光源、手機固定架等配件。

聯合國組候命維和部隊 1.5萬人中國或佔半

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【on.cc東網專訊】 聯合國維和行動副秘書長拉德蘇(Herve Ladsous)周四表示,正計劃組織一支1.5萬人的候命部隊,以能迅速部署至戰亂地區執行任務,正準備要求中國派出8000人。

中國去年曾宣布準備建立一支8000人的待命維和部隊,而拉德蘇雖未點明部隊的組成國家,但他正計劃下月到訪中國,討論有關該隊8000人部隊事宜。他受訪時表示,希望能在今年底前組成該支1.5萬人部隊。

目前有逾10萬名士兵或警員,為聯合國執行共16個任務。若中國派出8000部隊,中國將會成為聯合國部隊及警員的最大貢獻國之一。

戀上回教女犯禁忌 基督徒母被脫光衣服示眾

宗教衝突的恐怖, 一個人的事可以關全村人的事 !


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【on.cc東網專訊】 埃及基督教會周四發聲明指,首都開羅南部一條回教村落的一名基督教男子,因被傳與一名女子有感情關係,觸犯了埃及傳統社會禁忌,上周五其年老母親被脫光衣服遊街示眾,而村內至少6間基督徒住所亦被搜掠一空及焚毀。

埃及最具規模的科普特東正教教會周四發聲明講述事件,指涉事基督教男子早已收到恐嚇,但事發後保安部隊最終用了兩小時,才抵達現場處理事件。牧首塞奧佐羅斯二世希望回教社會保持克制。

埃及當局則向牧首保證,會拘捕兇徒,將他們繩之於法。埃及目前的9千萬人口中,僅得1成為基督教徒。

美首現超級細菌病例 可抵抗所有抗生素

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【on.cc東網專訊】 美國疾病控制及預防中心(CDC)周四表示,首次在美國國內發現一種可以對抗所有已知藥物的超級細菌,令外界對抗生素的治療效果提出質疑。

CDC 指個案涉及賓夕凡尼亞州一名49歲女性,她早前因大腸桿菌令尿道感染,但院方發現她體內的大腸桿菌,對用治療這種感染的最後手段、藥物克痢霉素 (colistin)產生抗藥性。CDC主任費爾登(Thomas Frieden)表示,克痢霉素是歷史悠久的抗生素,但卻是對付病菌的最後辦法。

美國微生物公會期刊「抗菌及化療」表示,超級細菌在美國首次發現,預視未來將出現具廣泛抗藥性細菌。據悉,該名女士並未有離開美國,即超級細菌在美國本土形成。

法罷工浪潮升級 各地爆警民衝突

俾出的福利, 難收返 !

福利杜會, 終於會玩完 !

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【on.cc東網專訊】 法國政府早前強行通過勞工改革法案,惹來大批民眾連月抵制,罷工浪潮持續,當地煉油廠、核電站受影響。全國多個城市周四出現大規模示威,其中首都巴黎市的示威更愈演愈烈,警方與示威者爆發衝突,多人被捕及受傷。

法國政府表示,周四全國估計有多達15萬名人上街,而發起示威的工會稱有30萬人上街。不少城市出現示威浪潮,其中有示威者在巴黎市內搞事破壞,打爛商店玻璃及破壞路邊汽車,防暴警員其後發射催淚彈驅散示威者。在里昂市,有民眾向警方投擲雜物,甚至與警方發生肢體衝突,場面極為混亂。

法國警方表示,全國有62名示威者被扣留,其中32人來自巴黎市,另有15名警員在衝突中受傷。另外,法國將於下月初舉行歐洲國家盃,工會呼籲巴黎地鐵於開幕日、即下月10日罷工,向政府施壓,迫使對方讓步。

恐怖夫人揚言施襲 SAS魚鷹機巡倫敦展實力

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【on.cc東網專訊】 有英國「恐怖夫人」之稱、伊斯蘭國(IS)前網絡戰首腦侯賽因的妻子瓊斯(Sally Jones),周三在社交網揚言於今年夏天,向倫敦地鐵發動恐襲。英國空軍特勤隊(SAS)翌日派出兩架專責反恐的V-22魚鷹運輸直升機,在倫敦市中心上空巡邏,向恐怖分子展示實力,以及保護民眾的決心。

兩架隸屬SAS的V-22魚鷹運輸直升機,周四在倫敦市中心多個地標上空巡邏,包括 大笨鐘、倫敦橋塔、倫敦眼等,吸引不少民眾的目光。據悉,因應恐襲威脅升級,SAS早前引入V-22魚鷹運輸直升機,令SAS可於恐襲發生後30分鐘內, 由赫里福德市的總部前往倫敦,向部署當地的SAS小組增派援兵。相比SAS過往所用的直升機,V-22魚鷹運輸直升機擁有更快的航速,並可載至少24人。

瓊斯周三在社交網撰文,稱自己不會於今年6月至7月前往倫敦中部,也不會在倫敦坐地鐵,似是暗示倫敦地鐵將成為下一個的襲擊目標。自從法國巴黎及比利時布魯 塞爾發生恐襲後,SAS一直保持高度戒備,並加緊受訓使用V-22魚鷹運輸直升機。有英媒分析,V-22魚鷹運輸直升機今次出現在倫敦上空,相信是SAS 的訓練項目。

Market talk May 26th, 2016

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A choppy session in Asia saw the Nikkei open strong but close almost unchanged while HSI and Shanghai spent the majority of the day negative only to close small positive. Focus remains on oil, currency as the JPY remains around the 110 handle, continued disappointing data and todays G7 meeting. China set the mid-point at 6.5552 today while off-shore trades 6.5605 in late US trading. Japanese PM Mr Abe’s opening comments at the G7 warned of a crisis on the scale of Lehman Brothers. Was mentioned in Europe but strangely did not find it that significant for the US markets.

Mixed session in Europe with the DAX and CAC producing a similar steady trading pattern, whilst FTSE and IBEX both closed lower. Spain suffered as Banco Popular fell 25% at the open after its declared a plan to sell an additional 2bn shares. G7 headlines did not move markets meaningfully and so we were left awaiting US data in the afternoon. Having seen the $50 Brent most of the day we did dip into the close and that, along with continued fixed-income demand nerved markets and we drifted into the close.

Ahead of tomorrows data and Janet Yellen’s speech the markets just failed to hold the trend. NASDAQ did manage to string three days of positive momentum together but sadly the DOW and S+P did not. All eyes will be on tomorrow GDP data where expectations are for a 0.9% and a Core PCE 2.1%. A little later we will see the final U. Mich – Sentiment where expectations are for a 95.4 print (where previous was 95.8).

Gold rejected the $1230 level in early trading and currently stands a little under $1220. Next Tuesday’s close (Month end) will be crucial in highlighting future direction. DXY closed a little lower at 95.20 as JPY and Euro clawed back some much lost ground. There is a lot of talk surrounding the SAR (Saudi Riyal) Forwards as it appears speculators are attacking the currency in order to break the peg. Saudi has apparently requested more information fro their banks in relations to this market. SAR Frwds have traded from 320 to 660 within this past month.

The uncertainty within today’s numbers pushed money back to chasing yield and hence we saw buyers chasing the Bond market. The 2/10 curve closed this evening at +96bp, with 10’s closing 1.84%. In Europe German Bunds also saw renewed buying and closed 0.145% (puts the US/Bund spread at +169.5bp. Italy closed 1.37% (+2bp), Greece 7.03% (+5bp), Turkey 9.68% (-15bp), Portugal 2.99% (+6bp) and Gilts 1.41%(-4bp).

立法會通過飲品玻璃樽徵費 2018年實施

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【on.cc東網專訊】 立法會今早以大比數三讀通過《2015年促進循環再造及妥善處置(產品容器)(修訂)條例草案》,該條例草案是按污染者自付原則,推行玻璃飲料容器徵費, 有42名議員贊成,5名議員反對。環境局局長黃錦星表示,條例將於2018年實行。有反對的立法會議員表示,政府未有相應配套設施,以達致終極減少廢物, 冀政府可推出其他措施,例如提高教育公眾等。

議員方剛形容草案是單純的環保徵費,以及只為環保戴上高帽。他批評,政府未有提供經濟誘因鼓勵回收,以及在教育方面做得非常少,希望政府可檢討現行方案,並在教育方面下更多功夫。

議員胡志偉雖支持草案,但認為政府現行方案未能改變市民大眾生活習慣,從而減少玻璃樽廢物產生,冀政府改變思維,產生「移風易俗」效果,改變社會模式。議員郭家麒就批評,政府未有足夠回收配套,擔心最終回收的玻璃樽會被送到堆填區,表明自己是「含淚」支持。

議員陳偉業表示,政府現時未有全面作源頭分類,不符合經濟效益。他更批評,政府現時相關環保政策分開多項條例草案是「白痴」模式,認為應設完整制度解決問 題。他指外國其他地方早在多年前已表示不再使用堆填區,反觀香港的環保政策比較落後,情況令人「心噏」,他又批評環保署「無能」,該署署長沒有環保意識和信念,認為長此下去只會蹉跎歲月和一事無成。

Has The Industrial Silver Panic Begun?

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As regular readers know, we have long warned that the End Game for the banksters manipulation of the bond markets & interest rates via gold and silver manipulation will occur when industrial users of physical silver, namely the colossal electronics industry- sniff the first signs of a wholesale shortage of physical silver, and begin panic hoarding of silver to ensure continued production of their tech gadgets. 
 
As First Majestic CEO Keith Neumeyer reveals in this stunning Bloomberg interview, that End Game industrial supply panic may have just begun…

Neumeyer reveals 

a major Japanese electronics firm has approached First Majestic to lock in physical silver, citing supply concerns: 

A major Japanese electronics maker approached First Majestic Silver Corp. for the first time last month seeking to lock in future stock, a sign of supply concerns that could boost the metal’s price ninefold, according to the best-performing producer of the metal.

“For an electronics manufacturer to come directly to us — that tells me something is changing in the market,” said Keith Neumeyer, chief executive officer of First Majestic, the top stock in Canada and among its global peers this year. “I think we’ll see three-digit silver,” he said, predicting the metal could surge to $140 an ounce by as early as 2019.

‘Strategic Metal’

While long coveted for use in jewelry, coins and utensils, silver is increasingly in demand for its industrial applications. Last year, about half of global silver consumption came from such use, including mobile phones, flat-panel TVs, solar panels and alloys and solders, according to data compiled by GFMS for the Washington-based Silver Institute.
Silver is not a precious metal, it’s a strategic metal,” Neumeyer said in an interview in Vancouver, where the company is based. “Silver is the most electrically conductive material on the planet other than gold, and gold is too expensive to use in circuit boards, solar panels, electric cars. As we electrify the planet, we require more and more silver. There’s no substitute for it.

Chilling Prophecy Predicts: “Obama Will Be Last U.S. President…Europe A Total Wasteland By End Of 2016”

預言的野, 你可以不信, 不過不可以不防, 可以變真的可能 !

所以投資一定要分散, 免得將來見財化水 !

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Submitted by Mac Slavo:

It is said that an eastern European clairvoyant has predicted a wide range of events including the attacks of September 11, the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004, the election of an African American as President of the United States, and an invasion of Europe by Muslim extremists. With a purported 85% accuracy rate, the late Baba Vanga counseled powerful politicians, business leaders and even heads of state.

She died in 1996, but not before making several other dire predictions.
One foretells the collapse of the United States of America as we know it today.

The other is perhaps even more frightening.

Vanga prophesied the total annihilation of the European continent, claiming that the entire region would be a barren wasteland resulting from a ‘great Muslim war’ that would begin in the middle east in 2010, an eerie reference the rise of the Arab Spring.

Baba Vanga died in 1996 at the age of 85 and was known as the ‘Nostradamus of the Balkans’ because of her success rate which was supposedly as high as 85 per cent.
The blind pensioner, who has previously been credited with predicting the 9/11 terror attacks and the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, warned of an invasion of Europe by Muslim extremists next year [2016].
Vanga is said to have made hundreds of predictions in her lifetime, including thatthere would be a ‘great Muslim war’ which would start with the Arab Spring in 2010.
She predicted it would take place in Syria and would come to a conclusion in 2043 with the establishment of a caliphate with Rome at its centre, News.com.aureports.
Vanga reportedly said Europe will ‘cease to exist’ by the end of next year, leaving the continent ‘almost empty’ and a ‘wasteland almost entirely devoid of any form of life’.

The pensioner once predicted that the 44th US president would be African American – but she also warned that he would be the ‘last US president’.
Via The Daily Mail

It is clear that an invasion of Europe by Muslims has begun. In fact, several million refugees remain isolated in Turkey as Turkish President Erdogan holds the rest of Europe hostageby demanding billions of dollars in aid. Failure to pay what amounts to nothing short of protection money, says Erdogan, will force him to release these hordes of people on the whole of Europe.

Thus, Vanga has been at least partially right about the prediction of invading armies, because as has been noted previously, among the real refugees seeking political and religious asylum, are literally millions of fighting age men with extremist views who are preparing to launch attacks on European countries.

The attacks in Paris and Belgium in recent months are proof positive of this.
The fact that terrorist organizations have been found with caches of war grade weapons and are actively trying to compromise nuclear power plants in the region suggests that, should they effectively coordinate attacks utilizing weapons of mass destruction, be they chemical, biologicial, radiological or nuclear, Vanga’s prediction of turning Europe into a total wasteland could certainly come to pass.

We know weapons of mass destruction have been smuggled into Europe, leading many concerned citizens to not only acquire self defense firearms, but personal protective equipment for CBRN attacks.

We also know that a similar threat exists on the Southern border of the United States, where terrorists have already been captured attempting to cross into the U.S.

Further highlighting the threat, the Obama administration recently issued a report outlining four ways that a nuclear or radiological device could be used to attack Americans on U.S. soil. That report was followed by a new policy in Texas where game wardens operating close to the southern border are being issued radiological and nuclear detection equipment along smuggling routes.

The threat of attacks that could leave millions in Europe and the United States sickened or dead are real. Our governments are already preparing for them.

And though prophecies of destruction and mass die-offs are nothing new, Baba Vanga’s date-specific predictions made twenty years ago seemingly coincide with events that are happening all around us.

2016 1oz Niue Disney Frozen - Elsa Silver Proof Coin

Year     2016
Metal Content     1oz
Denomination     $2
Purity     999
Diameter (mm)     40mm
Condition     Proof
Country     Niue
Manufacturer     New Zealand Mint
Mintage     10,000

呢枚公主精製銀幣在LPM買 600蚊, 有印有証書書形盒附送; 送俾小女孩一定會受歡迎 !

中國在英發行30億人幣國債 超購逾3倍

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【on.cc東網專訊】 中銀香港(02388)高級經濟研究員應堅表示,中國財政部成功在英國倫敦發行30億元3年期人民幣國債,獲得3倍以上的超額認購,顯示離岸人民幣匯率波動趨於緩和後,全球市場對人民幣資產的信心正在增強。

由於今年10月人民幣成為SDR籃子貨幣將正式生效,預計不少央行都會調整外匯儲備結構,對高評級人民幣債券的需求很強,除了進入境內銀行間市場購買外,一旦離岸市場發行人民幣國債,亦很受歡迎。這對財政部近期在香港發行人民幣國債的定價相當有利。

另 一方面,此次離岸人民幣國債成功發行,將進一步提振離岸人民幣債券的市場信心。一個月來,離岸人民幣債券市場不斷傳出好消息,連續發行了五六筆人民幣債券 或票據,包括中國銀行協助匈牙利政府發行的主權債和德國巴登符騰農信銀行點心債,美國市場也首次出現中國金融機構的人民幣CD及票據,令處於冰凍狀態的點 心債市場出現回暖述象。隨着境內外人民幣資金成本倒掛現象進一步改善,債券孳息率也會接近,將會刺激更多點心債發行。