Stocks kick off May with soft showing
STI is mostly in negative territory on Monday before closing 4.7 points lower; interest in penny stocks continues to wane
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THE Straits Times Index (STI) was pushed up by about 11 points in the final seconds of trading last Thursday, so it came as no surprise that on Monday, the first trading day of May, the index spent most of the day in the red before eventually ending a net 4.69 points weaker at 3,482.70.
It also came as no surprise to see penny stock interest continue to dwindle - turnover done was a weak 1.5 billion units worth S$1.02 billion for an average of S$0.68 per unit traded, more than two times the value a month ago. The dollar value done in the STI's 30 components was S$279 million, about 27 per cent of overall business.
As for the broad market's performance, weakness in the index usually means softness all round and this was borne out by an advance-decline score of 178-287 excluding warrants.
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