STI ends lower in another muted session
Dow hits 47th all-time high in the US on Tuesday, but this fails to inspire the Singapore index
WIKIPEDIA defines Chinese water torture as "a process in which water is slowly dripped onto a person's forehead, allegedly making the restrained victim insane''.
Traders here scoff at this as a form of punishment, pointing out that they have been undergoing a far worse fate - slow death by terminal boredom for more months than they would care to remember.
Wednesday's session provided a good example of this, when the Straits Times Index (STI) hardly twitched for the whole session before sliding in the afternoon to a net loss of 8.67 points at 3,280.28.
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