Singapore Budget 2020 vs Coronavirus (Updated 19 Feb 2020)

Singapore Budget 2020 Coronavirus

Singapore Budget 2020 is just announced, a balanced plan with both short term (eg. fighting Coronavirus crisis) and mid/long term (eg. retraining) goals. However, money is never enough, so the incentives is just a temporary relief. A country could only get stronger with higher productivity in higher value economy sectors.

Additional financial assistance is given to 5 main sectors affected by Coronavirus, eg. tourism, airline/cruise, transportation, F&B and retail, some business may have dropped more than 50% over the past 1 month.

Fear of Coronavirus is more harmful than its real risk (# death, so far 0 in Singapore) as people start to stay more at home, the sectors above would badly affected. However, this health crisis is likely to be a short term for a few months. Even it becomes an uncontrollable disease as seasonal flu, the fatality would drop significantly based on past experience of new viruses (eg. H1N1) due to build up of immune system within human with more infection. Human could “evolve” as well together with viruses, both have to co-exist in a balanced way of living.

Singapore Coronavirus

Based on the latest daily # infected for Coronavirus, World (mainly China) is falling down below the critical 2000 “support” from Technical Analysis point of view, light at the end of tunnel to see a strong bearish signal with strong hope to reach a peak (not absolute peak but 95-99% of ultimate value) by end of Feb 2020, with conditions that data reported so is reliable and consistent without a second wave of infection (workforce back to work after lunar new year).

Singapore is still staying above the “support” of 2 daily cases, no clear signal of downtrend in # infected cases. However, the consistent downtrend in World (mainly China) cases is a strong lead to Singapore which is likely 1+ month behind China.

Even after reaching peak, Coronavirus may take a few months to end as there may be cross-infection of those waiting for recovery and long incubation period (14 days).

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Technical Analysis with Level 1-4 Analysis for Coronavirus (Updated 17 Feb 2020) with Singapore Budget 2020

Coronavirus Singapore Budget 2020

Similar to Technical Analysis for stock market, we may analyze the # infected cases as share prices but looking for bearish signal, eg downtrend or breaking below a critical support, eg 2000 cases for World (mainly China Hubei) or 2 cases for Singapore.

Latest Coronavirus data (16 Feb 2020) has 3 cases of # infected in Singapore, having good chance to come to “technical support” of 2 daily cases again but need to break below this number for a few days or even 1 week to establish a consistent downtrend. It is harder to analyze Singapore cases due to limited sample size (similar to a volatile penny stock, when base is a low number, up/down would create large % changes).

So, it is relatively more stable to analyze world # infected cases (still near to support of 2000 daily new cases but not yet breaking downward) which are more stable due to large sample size (so far consistently about 1000 times of # cases in Singapore). The mega trend of world could provide some leads to direction of Singapore cases in future.

For stock analysis, this is similar to Level Analysis (LA) or LOFTP strategies, Top-down analysis from World (Level 4) to Country (Level 3) to Sector (Level 2) to Individual Stock (Level 1). For Coronavirus:
Level 4 = World # infected
Level 3 = Respective Country # infected
Level 2 = Respective City # Infected (Singapore L2 = L3 due to small country = city)
Level 1 = Cluster / Group / Company of related cases (smallest unit to track # infected cases).
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Singapore Budget 2020 to be announced on 18 Feb 2020, ideally will serve multiple objectives for 3 different time frames (similar to stock investment: short term, mid term and long term):

1) Short-term (< 3 months): Coronavirus induced financial crisis, especially selected sectors.
2) Mid-term (<1 year): Stimulate Singapore economy which has been slowing down (even before Coronavirus outbreak)
3) Long-term (5-10 years): Create new opportunity for Singapore (restructuring of economy, training / investment in emerging technologies with higher economic values, etc)

Of course, politically, this would give 4th generation leaders, a chance to take the lead, making major decisions during potential crisis time. The results in short term, mid term and long term would translate into scores for voters to consider before next General Election, within 1+ year (latest by 15 Apr 2021). Balance in consideration for short term, mid term and long term would be a test on wisdom of leaders, whether to satisfy short term crisis needs or looking for long term growth or a balanced or average approach with sharing of resources to make most people satisfied but not excited.

Crisis could be an opportunity if the crisis could be resolved eventually with right decisions most of the time. It is true for all countries leaders, especially those most affected by the current Coronavirus: China, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, etc.
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