The Sun’s Financial Diary

Greeting from China!
I spent most of the day yesterday on the planes. First I asked a friend to drop me off at a local New Jersey Transit train station near where we live so I can take the train to Newark International Airport. Actually, it was the first time I took a [...]

Yes, I am on vacation, for a month!
By the time this post hits the blog, I will be sitting in a Continental Airlines plane in Newark Airport waiting for taking off. My destination is Beijing, 6,000 miles away. It has been a long time since I was on vacation last time, more than two years, [...]

Think U.S. stock market is miserable? You will feel much better if you look at what happened in Shanghai and Hong Kong since last October. Since reaching the all-time high in October 2007, Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index has lost nearly 70% of its value in less one year.

But over night, the China government finally [...]

So the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is over!

The past two weeks were pretty exciting, with all the sport events happening 6000 miles away. Right after the opening ceremony on 08/08/08, checking all the actions and scores and, of course, the medal count, became my daily routine. Too bad that most of the time I had [...]

July was a volatile month for U.S. stock markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average started the month with some big losses, even closing below 11,000 for the first time in two year on July 15th. But since then, the index has reclaimed some of the losses after a pair of strong rallies, fueled by declining [...]

Because of my connection with China, I always keep an eye on what’s happening 6000 miles away from my house. These days, the biggest story in China seems to be that its once relentless climbing stock markets finally hit the break. Since closed at record high on May 29th, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index [...]