SINGAPORE - Gains in banks and property counters helped the market to edge up by the end of trade on Friday.

SINGAPORE - A quiet session in which the broad market was mixed and saw little action ended with the Straits Times Index (STI) trading within a narrow band before finishing a nett 5.44 points up at 2,879.35.

SINGAPORE - Stocks started firm on Friday after Wall Street rallied on the possibility new banking regulations being studied by US Congress could be watered down.