Xilinx Outlook for March 2011

Business Outlook - March Quarter Fiscal 2011

-- Sales are expected to be flat to up 5% sequentially.
-- Gross margin is expected to be approximately 65% plus or minus one
percentage point.
-- Operating expenses are expected to be approximately $195 million,
including approximately $6 million in restructuring charges.
-- Other income and expense is expected to be an expense of approximately
$9 million.
-- Fully diluted share count is expected to be approximately 266 million.
-- March quarter tax rate is expected to be approximately 21%.

MAXIS Dividend of 8 Cent (2nd Interim for 2010)

MAXIS announced at 30-Aug-10 for interim dividend of 8¢ (MYR) per share and to be paid out on 30-Sep-2010.Total of dividend so far for 2010 is 25¢ (MYR).

If purchase price at MYR 4.75 per share IPO price, the return of investment (ROI) is estimated to be 5.2%.

GENTING Dividend of 3.3 Cent

Genting announced at 26-Aug-10 for interim dividend of 3.3¢ (MYR) per share and to be paid out on 26-Oct-2010.Total of dividend so far for 2010 is 7.2¢ (MYR).

If purchase price at MYR 6.36 per share, the return of investment (ROI) is estimated to be 1.1%.

Genting Berhad Q1 10 Financial Result

Genting Q1 is experiencing loss again. Reason??? Need to find out.

Stock Performance:

MAXIS Q1 10 Financial Result

Financial Result:
Declared interim dividend of 8-cents for FY2010 & paid on 30-June 2010.
EBITDA margin to 50.3%
Non-voice revenue grew to 34.8% of mobile revenue. Mobile internet users grew 1.2 million to 6.4 million.
400k subscriptions added in Q1 to extend cumulative market leadership to 40.9%

Stock performance since IPO:

Maybank net profit up 105% in 3Q

Pick from thestar.com.my

PETALING JAYA: Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) reported a net profit of RM1.03bil for its third quarter ended March 31,compared to RM503.3mil recorded in the same period a year earlier after all of its business segments recorded growth.

Revenue for the period stood at RM4.59bil against RM4.27bil a year ago.

Maybank in a statement said its core commercial banking operations were expected to continue the good performance moving forward.

The investment banking and insurance divisions are expected to advance further on the back of better capital market activity and improved internal capability and capacity, it said.

Share is closed at MYR7.76.

MAXIS Declared Dividend

MAXIS announced pm 25-Feb-2010 to give interim single tier 6-cent (TE) and to be paid out on 30-Mar-10 as of 2010 year. Total year payout dividend is 12-cent.

MAYBANK Declared Dividend

MAYBANK will give interim 11-cent and to be paid out on 16-Mar-10 as of 2010 year.

MAXIS Q4 09 Financial Result

Maxis posts RM503m Q4 profit

Maxis Bhd registered a net profit of RM503mil on revenue of RM2.2bil for the fourth quarter ended Dec 31, supported by an increase in total mobile subscriptions, postpaid average revenue per user (Arpu) and non-voice revenue.

Net Profit Margin: 22.8%

Maxis declared an interim dividend of six sen and proposed a final dividend of three sen. The payout will amount to RM675mil in addition to the RM450mil paid in the third quarter, bringing total dividends for the financial year ended Dec 31 (FY09) to RM1.125bil.

Is it a good news?

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM) -- a.k.a. TSMC -- is the world's largest chip-making specialist. The company takes designs from fab-less chip designers like NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), Atheros (Nasdaq: ATHR), and Silicon Laboratories (Nasdaq: SLAB) and turns the theory into real pieces of working silicon. TSMC moved to a four-day work week recently in order to control costs. Now, everyone is back to the factory for five full days per week.

This comes only days after Taiwanese gadget assembly specialist Hon Hai Precision Industries went on a hiring spree to replace workers sacked over the holidays. And you haven't forgotten about the pending consolidation in Taiwan's massive computer memory operations, right? There are big things afoot in Taiwan today.

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Nasdaq is trading at 1500++.

US Job Rate-03-06-09

Employers clipped 651,000 jobs from nonfarm payrolls in February, on target with expectations, though the prior two months were revised to show many more jobs were lost than previously thought. The unemployment rate hit a 25-year high of 8.1 percent, much worse than expected.

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Altera News Update: Q3'08 Financial Announcement

Altera Q3 revenue drop 1% but still within guidance and Gross Margin up to 67%



Highlight:
Gross margin maintain at 67.1% from Q-o-Q. This help to set Net Profit Margin at 26.5%.

Cash and short-term investments of $1.28 billion.

Outlook:
Q4 sales will range from a decline of 3%t to a gain of 1% from the $356.8 million it reported for the third quarter. That projects to between $346.1 million and $360.4 million.

Q2-08-Link

Lehman Brother, Merrill Lynch, AIG - Bank Crisis

US market has suffer a significant drop in recent few day due to Lehman Brother filled for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch was bought by Bank of American and AIG might be the next one to be in some trouble. Thus, beware of the movement in the whole world economy.

Apple News Update: Q3'08 Financial Announcement

Apple outlook well below Wall St view



Highlight:
-Apple shipped nearly 2.5 million Macs in its Q3 (up 41 percent from a year ago), sold more than 11 million iPods (up 12 percent from a year ago), sold 717,000 iPhone.
-Q3 gross margin of 34.8%
Share down 10% after earning released.

Outlook:
Apple forecast September-quarter earnings of $1.00 per share, below the Wall Street target range of $1.13 to $1.41 per share.
Badly lagging the average of $1.25. Apple's revenue target of $7.8 billion trails Wall Street's $8.3 billion view for its fiscal fourth quarter, according to Reuters Estimates.
Apple forecast a Q4 gross margin of 31.5 percent, and about 30 percent for 2009.

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Malaysia - CPI for June surges to 7.7%

As reported by TheStar Newspaper, Malaysia's Consumer Price Index (CPI) for June spiked to a 27-year high of 7.7%. This figure is slightly more than double the May CPI of 3.8%. The 7.7% is also the highest since April 1981 when the CPI was recorded at 10.8%.

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Xilinx News Update: Q1'09 Financial Announcement

Xilinx posts flat earnings, strong revenue for 1Q



Highlights:
- Q1 result included charges of $24.1 million, or 7 cents per share, for a restructuring as well as impairment losses on equity investments.
- Sales from the Asia Pacific region reached a record 32 percent of total sales, up from 29 percent a year ago.
- Shares rose $1.36 to $25.21 in regular trading and shed 55 cents to $24.66 after hours.

Outlook:
Q2'09 projects revenue could grow as much as 1 percent sequentially, but could decline as much as 3 percent, which translates to a range of $493 million to $473.5 million.

Altera News Update: Q2'08 Financial Announcement

Altera Q2 revenue up 7% and beat the its forecast of 4%



Highlight:
Gross margin improved to 67.1 percent from 64.6 percent. This boost up Net Profit Margin to 27.2%.

Altera repurchased 65,000 shares during the quarter for $1.4 million.

It also declared a quarterly dividend of 5 cents a share to shareholders on record on Aug. 11.

Outlook:

Third-quarter sales to be flat to down 3 percent sequentially (359.9 mil to 349.1 mil).

On average, analyst surveyed by Thomson Financial forecast revenue of $350.5 million.

InBev confirms Anheuser-Busch deal for $50 billion

U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc (NYSE:BUD - News) agreed to be acquired by Belgium-based InBev NV (Brussels:INTB.BR - News) for about $50 billion, the companies said on Sunday, creating the world's largest beer maker.

InBev, maker of Stella Artois and Beck's, plans to pay $70 per share for Anheuser, the No. 1 U.S. brewer. Based on Anheuser's 713 million shares outstanding as of March 31, the deal values the company at $50 billion.

To think about...what is the acquisition meant?

Malaysia Inflation to Exceed 6% in June 08

KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Negara Malaysia expects the consumer price inflation to exceed 6% in June, following the adjustment in petrol prices by 40.6% and diesel prices by 63.3%, says Governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz.

US STOCKS-Dow falls 394.64 points

US STOCKS-Dow falls 394.64 points on jobless rate, record oil on 6/6/08.

Its biggest drop since February 2007. The blue-chip Dow average was off 3.4 percent for the week.

Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC lost 75.38 points, or 2.96 percent, to close at 2,474.56, down 1.9 percent for the week.

Factors:
* Stagflation fears rattle market

* Soaring oil, unemployment rate (Rose to 5.5% on May, its highest level since October 2004) spur broad sell-off

* Big manufacturers, financials, airlines, retailers hit