Oil rally, Dow futures rise lift market

A RALLY in oil to above US$50 per barrel and a 90-point rise in the Dow futures helped stimulate trading in Singapore on Tuesday, with the Straits Times Index (STI) managing an 8.68-point rise to 3,338.2.

Turnover at 2.7 billion units worth S$1.3 billion was decent enough given that it was above the broking industry's ballpark breakeven average of US$1 billion, a…