Wall St strength fails to rub off on STI
Most of the support for index this year has come from the outperformance of Singtel
THE Straits Times Index on Monday dipped 0.19 point to 2,867.21. Volume was a low 815.10 million units worth S$721.10 million and excluding warrants, there were 212 rises versus 179 falls.
These were the main statistics for a mainly quiet and featureless session, perhaps surprisingly, given Wall Street's strength in recent days and the Dow futures gaining about 35 points during Asian trading hours on Monday.
Over in North Asia, the Hang Seng Index ended 0.7 per cent higher, Japan's Nikkei fell 0.3 per cent and the Shanghai Composite gained 2.4 per cent.
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