STI weakens but action aplenty in pennies
Local blue chips listless despite leap in Dow futures contract and rise in HK bourse on dovish FOMC expectations
AN 80-point jump in the Dow futures contract, a 0.6 per cent rise in Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index and a firm opening Europe-wide on Wednesday suggested that markets were positioning themselves for a dovish US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, but these developments failed to stir local blue chips into life - the Straits Times Index (STI) drifted within a narrow band before finishing a net 3.95 points weaker at 2,850.74.
Penny stock activity, however, was relatively strong, with total market turnover amounting to 1.52 billion units, the highest so far this week. The market's dollar value, however, was also the highest for the week at S$944 million, though it was below the longer-term average of S$1.1 …
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