Singapore January total market cap up 2.1%

Singapore

A SURGE of interest in finance and manufacturing stocks helped lift the total market capitalisation of listed companies on the Singapore bourse by 2.1 per cent in January from a month ago to S$1.03 trillion.

With 745 companies, the market cap as at Jan 31 represented a 12.6 per cent jump from a year ago when there were 746 companies.