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Singapore market continues slide

Investor sentiment was further shaken by fears that China could use rare-earth metals as a countermeasure to US tariffs

Published Thu, May 30, 2019 · 09:50 PM

LOCAL equities continued to slide after a Wall Street session where investors were jittery over the US economic outlook, with mounting tensions in the trade war and growth worries doing the market no favours as sentiment in Asia dented further.

Singapore's Straits Times Index (STI) closed at 3,143.00, down 20.28 points or 0.6 per cent.

At a press briefing on Thursday, Chinese vice-foreign minister Zhang Hanhui said that while Beijing was against a trade war, it was not afraid.

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