Markets likely positive next week, Nifty range 2800-3250

Kalau nak diikutkan, ini merupakan satu petanda baik kepada market semasa dunia. Harap-harap ekonomi dunia kembali pulih. AIG pun sudah mengemukakan proses re-schedule untuk syarikatnya. Positive economic and stock exchange next week.

MUMBAI: Indian stock markets advanced for the second consecutive weekend as short covering and some value buying spurred a rally in power and oil & gas stocks on Friday. The positive close is likely to continue into next week but in a tight trading range, as investors remain confused for want of clear direction.

“Next week will be positive for the markets with Nifty trading above 2800 level, where it has found good support. Bargain hunters are picking stocks which are available at attractive prices. Resistance for the markets is seen at 3250 levels," said Vijay Bhambwani, CEO-BSPLindia.

Stocks gained in Europe and US futures climbed Friday suggesting markets may rebound on rising speculation that the major central banks may go for another round of rates cut to unlock credit and boost consumer spending to arrest the economic global slowdown.

“Given the global economic slump and to bolster credit availability to the industry we may also see another round of rate cuts in coming days. Monday, Indian markets are likely to see gap-up opening while profit booking is likely to come in late trading. Immediate resistance for Nifty is seen at 3030 level and then at 3150-3200 levels. Support is at 2900-2850, breach of the above level may take it to 2750,” said Ankit Sinha, CEO-Spark Advisory.

Bank of England and European Central Bank on Thursday reduced their benchmark rates in an effort to limit the economic damage.

For the mid to long term, the news flow is going to be bad but it's already discounted in the stock prices.

According to analysts, the worst may be over for equity markets, but the recovery will take time. However, the pain is not over for the real economy. Weakness will be felt well into the first half of 2009. It's only as we get the lag effect of the change in monetary policy and the benefits of low commodity and energy prices that you should start to see economies recovering in the second half of the next year.

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The most beautiful Lake Garden - TheStar.com.my

If you’ve always bypassed Taiping on your journeys, make a point of stopping there for the night. You won’t regret it.

Taiping is a place that’s pretty much off anyone’s radar, unless it
happens to be your hometown and you are looking forward to your annual balik kampung break.

It’s
a full hour’s drive from Ipoh using the expressway and two hours on the
old trunk road. The fellow behind the wheel (a.k.a. my husband) had had
a long day and he was getting grouchy. We had been to Ipoh, and he’d
really rather be heading for home in KL now.

Out
of order?: The trees in Taiping are let to grow to its own accord and
in the end what you get is gorgeous greens. — STEVEN CHING

“But there’s nothing in Taiping,” he complained. “The car doesn’t run on water, you know?”

Luckily,
we were already halfway there when he started his protest, so it made
little sense to turn back. Besides, we hadn’t been to Taiping before,
and weren’t we supposed to be on a hunt for good local food? But yes,
the enthusiasm had started to wane.

That it rained in Taiping
when we got there didn’t help much either. We were confined to the
hotel for the rest of the evening. The brochure boasted that Hotel
Furama was the winner of the “Golden America Award for Quality and
Excellence, New Millennium Award from Geneva, Switzerland” and the
“28th International Award for Tourist Hotel and catering Industry from
Madrid, Spain”.

Now, with credentials like that the hotel must be amazing, right?

But
what we had found ourselves staring at looked like a cross between a
low-rise office block and an apartment building. The hotel had tiled
walls, floors, stairs, and plastic kumquat trees with blinking lights.
It felt like some towkay’s Chinese New Village home.

It was very
basic with no lift, fridge, coffeehouse, or bathtub. But to its credit,
everything was spotlessly clean. Delightfully, the hotel provided free,
uninterrupted WiFi service. The rate being only RM71.40 per night, we
had no cause to complain at all.

The best part about this
nondescript hotel with its somewhat doubtful international credentials
is that the famous Taiping Lake Garden and the Taiping Zoo is just a
stone’s throw away. When morning came, my bedfellow was his usual
get-up-and-go self again.

Hmm, it must have been the
rejuvenating effect of a good night’s sleep and waking up to fresh
clean air. Interestingly, this hotel with the rural feel grows on you.

You even get to hear the roosters crowing in the distance at dawn.

Making the call: An old-fashioned phone booth in front of the Information Centre.

But Taiping the town is no sleepy hollow. The makan shops were already serving the morning crowd before 7am. We settled on some dim sum at a coffeeshop. How much do you reckon you’d have to fork over for one tai pau (big meat bun), two char siew pau (barbecued pork buns) and two servings of dim sum?

RM6.50, the lady in the shop told us. This was half what we were used to paying in KL, but of course, we didn’t tell her that.

That day, we went where our noses led us.

Along Market Road, the aroma of char kuey teow
from a stall in Tai Chen Kopitiam stopped us in our tracks. We put our
usual mind-your-cholesterol alert on the back-burner and ordered fried
rice, fried mee-hoon and fried kuey teow.

We finished the lot without a tinge of guilt or regret.

There
were three things we liked about our serendipitous find: the taste, the
price, and the generous helping of big delicious prawns. Paying only
RM2.80 a plate, we wondered if Taiping was the last of the
inflation-proof townships in Malaysia.

A little further down, we found a kopitiam dedicated totally to local fried desserts. This made us dig into our pockets for loose change. Nope, we weren’t holding back.

Restoran
Goreng Pisang PSL fries bananas, yams, sweet potatoes, currypuffs,
popiah, and ninko (sweet, sticky Chinese New Year cake) sandwiched
between yams slices in full view of passers-by. At only 50 sen per
piece, these were unsurprisingly all sold out by evening.

The proprietress, Madam PSL (we didn’t find out her full name) is a Chinese lady who started her goreng pisang
business 20 years ago. Her 88-year old mother still potters around,
helping to separate the pieces of fried delicacies that got stuck
together and re-arranging them on the trays. It was evident that Madam
PSL had done pretty well for herself, for she had upgraded her business
from a road-side stall to a coffeeshop.

According to the
records, Taiping was the first major town to be developed by the
British. Consequently, it lays claim to a string of firsts in the
country — the first swimming pool (the Coronation Pool built in 1870),
the first port (Port Weld 1877, now Kuala Sepetang), the first museum
(Perak Museum 1883), and the first lake garden and zoo 1880.

We left the best of Taiping for last — its renowned Lake Garden.

The
council signboard said that the Garden had been acknowledged by the
government as the most beautiful public garden in Malaysia. All it
takes is one good look around, and you too would readily agree with the
assessment.

The lake may be man-made, the remnants of a mining
pool, but it has been expertly shaped and landscaped into grounds that
are so scenic they take your breath away. Parts of it made us feel like
we were trespassing on immaculate golf green.

The roads
bordering the Garden are lined with ancient rain-trees with twisting
gnarled branches that arch right across the road to slope down and dip
into the lake.

Some of the trees even appear as though they are
part of an enchanted, petrified forest. There was this one tree that
looked like a resting stag with branches growing out of its head.

After
visiting the zoo and walking the entire perimeter of the park, we sat
down on a bench to rest. When we looked out across the lake, what we
saw made us feel we were a million miles away from the world of
rush-hour traffic and the urban crawl.

At that point in time, we
felt like we were part of a perfect picture, a sort of Dorian Gray
scene where nothing ages or changes.

There was the tranquil,
shimmering body of water, beyond which was the gorgeous Garden with its
clusters of tall, rust-leafed trees, and beyond this was the
magnificent blue-green mountains of the Bintang range. Perfect.

I
have been to quite a few parks and gardens in my time, and I dare say
that the scenic beauty of the Taiping Lake Garden is on par with some
of the best in the world. And it is right here in our own backyard, too.

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