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STI manages to stay in the black for 2016

But the index closes 9.2 points down for Thursday as the previous days' window-dressing push is checked

Published Thu, Dec 29, 2016 · 09:50 PM

THROUGHOUT 2016, the 2,882 level has proven troublesome for the Straits Times Index (STI), this being the point at which the index ended 2015. After four or five failed attempts to stay above it during the past 12 months, a window-dressing push on Tuesday and Wednesday this week that almost took the index to 2,900 was thwarted on Thursday after an overnight plunge on Wall Street brought the sellers out.

In thin volume, the index first dropped to an intraday low of 2,878 before either a bout of short-covering or yet another feeble window-dressing attempt enabled it to climb to 2,889.15, for a net loss of 9.15 points on the day; but more important…

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