Suddenly alone, STI backtracks a little

LET'S say, for the sake of making a frivolous analogy, that you are a young adventurer with heroic ambitions, travelling through the woods and headed for a cave which, legend says, may or may not be the lair of a dragon.

Suddenly, you notice that all has gone quiet and a bunch of your fellow travellers are missing.

What would you do?

Well, if you were the Singapore Exchange, you might backtrack a little.

On a day when a number of regional markets were closed and two key central bank meetings were scheduled for the coming week, Singapore shares on Friday ended four straight negative sessions, as the S…