Flu’s

I’m still battling the flu. Feeling slightly better as I think the fever is gone. This is the second time I’m sick since arriving here late July which is more or less in line with the pattern I experienced when I first moved here. It reminded me an observation I made when I lived in […]

Last day

It’s my last day in NZ. The packers came yesterday and everything is gone. A strong feeling of deja vu sets in. Just me in a big empty house, my laptop, a suitcase and a flight ticket for tomorrow morning. Different house, different laptop, different suitcase, different country but yet it’s all pretty much the […]

ISP

Having issues with my ISP again. I wasn’t able to connect to IB’s TWS today. Strangely everything else seems to work fine like browsing and QCharts.
I tried trading off the web trader and got short PALM but chickened out and move the stop to BE which was hit later in the day.

NZ online for porn, sheep

Haha this was so funny..
Kiwis are looking for rugby, sheep and porn when they go online, although not necessarily in that order, says web search giant Google.
New Zealand tops the rankings for several searches compiled by the company for its Google Trends page, which tallies the number of web searches for a word by city […]

Telecom NZ Shares

 
If you remember, Telecom NZ has been hit with a deregulatory blow a couple of weeks ago. The share price dropped from 5.5 to 5. It was a very popular topic at work on that day and I discovered that a few people were still going to hold on. I don’t normally talk about stocks […]

Kiwi Dollar and NZ Banking

The Kiwi Dollar is taking a nose dive against a strengthening US Dollar. I was lucky to buy some USD last night (well maybe not just lucky) before it lost amost 2 cents in the past 24 hours. The interesting thing I noticed is that my bank, ASB Bank does not update their exchange rate […]

Telecom NZ Must Give Rivals More Access to Network

Finally..
Telecom stock fell 6.9 percent after the government said the company will have to give rivals access to the so-called local loop, the copper wires that link telephone exchanges with homes and businesses. That allows rivals such as Australia’s Telstra Corp. to sell their own Internet and voice services rather than resell Telecom’s.
“This is very, […]

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