STI slides again as year-end fatigue sets in

THE Straits Times Index fell again on Tuesday, dipping by 10.35 points, or 0.3 per cent, to finish at 3,404.47. While that is not much to weep over in the grand scheme of things, the index's downward movement continued a four-day losing streak - and erased the mild gains made during intra-day trading.

Across the board, all the hullabaloo in rah-rah United States equity markets was not enough to stir the market here, with just 1.62 billion shares, worth S$978.4 million, changing hands for the day.

And losers outnumbered gainers by a depressing ratio of 224 to 173.