Monday 19 March 2018

Singapore shares open lower on Tuesday tailing US tech selloff; STI down 0.4%


SINGAPORE - Singapore shares opened 0.4 for each penny bring down on Tuesday (March 20), with the Straits Times Index down 13.85 focuses to 3,484.44 as at 9.02am as stocks in Asia fell, expanding on misfortunes on Wall Street after a selloff in innovation shares marked merchant assessment on Monday. 

On the Singapore Exchange, around 45 million offers worth S$54 million altogether changed hands as failures dwarfed gainers 103 to 27. 

The most effectively exchanged stock was Golden Agri-Resources, which exchanged at S$0.350 with seven million offers evolving hands. 

Different actives included Noble Group and YZJ Shipbuilding. 

Dynamic record stocks included DBS, down S$0.16 or 0.6 for each penny at S$27.91; and Singtel shares exchanging up S$0.02 or 0.6 for every penny at S$3.46. 

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 335.6 focuses, or 1.35 for each penny, to close at 24,610.91, the S&P 500 lost 39.09 focuses, or 1.42 for every penny, to 2,712.92 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 137.74 focuses, or 1.84 for every penny, to 7,344.24. 

In territorial markets, Japan's Topix record fell 0.8 for every penny and the Nikkei 225 Stock Average slid 1.1 for each penny as at 9.12am in Tokyo. In the interim, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index dropped 0.5 for every penny and South Korea's Kospi file fell 0.4 for every penny.

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