Domestic conditions may keep market active

SINGAPORE traders return to work after the Good Friday public holiday, but other bourses like Australia and Hong Kong will stay shut for Easter Monday, alongside key European Union peers.

Still, that does not necessarily mean a quiet day ahead here.

Last week was an eventful one worldwide, marked by trade skirmishes between the United States and China, even as North Korea made peace overtures to its neighbours, and Japan reeled from a cronyism scandal that hit close to home for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.