Wall Street's rise helps STI gain 16 pts
Region-wide bounce also sees Hang Seng Index surge 2.7% and Nikkei 1.6%; Singapore turnover feeble at S$794m
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WALL Street's Tuesday rally helped push the Straits Times Index (STI) up 16.43 points to 2,766.66 on Wednesday, part of a region-wide bounce that saw the Hang Seng Index gain 2.7 per cent and the Nikkei 1.6 per cent.
Turnover, however, was a weak one billion units worth S$794 million and gains were not as widespread as the index's rise would suggest - excluding warrants, there were 228 rises against 165 falls throughout the whole market. Of the dollar volume done, S$528 million or 66 per cent came from trading in the STI's components.
US markets rose on Tuesday, supposedly after the release of better-than-expected housing numbers which were said to give rise to the view that the economy there is strong enough to withstand the series of interest rate hikes that the Federal Reserve is envisaging.
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