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Soft leads make for muted trading session

But fresh round of earnings reports could put some pep in the Singapore market

Annabeth Leow

Published Mon, Apr 23, 2018 · 09:50 PM

LOCAL equities were subdued on Monday, with the bourse seeing a churn of 1.57 billion shares for a value of just S$1.14 billion.

The benchmark Straits Times Index oscillated around a one-day average of 3,576.78, before closing almost flat at 3,579.54 - a gain of 6.16 points, or 0.17 per cent.

DBS chief economist Taimur Baig seemed to pick up on an "every man for himself" mood in Washington. In the wake of recent International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group's spring meetin…

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