Singapore' STI down 0.83% on Tuesday morning

SINGAPORE share prices opened lower on Tuesday with the Straits Times Index (STI) down 28.15 points, or 0.83 per cent, to 3,363.96 as at 9.06 am, following mixed sentiment in US and European trading on Monday.

Among the most active stocks in early morning trading were Keppel Corp, which lost 5 cents to S$8.70; Singtel, which shed 7 cents to S$4.06; and Noble, which fell 2.5 cents to S$0.77.

Some 136.6 million shares worth S$241.3 million changed hands, with losers outnumbering gainers 113 to 74.