Singapore stocks open Monday lower

$FTSE Singapore Straits Time Index(.STI.SG)$ was down 4.19 points or 0.1 per cent to 3,204.36. Losers outnumbered gainers 75 to 51 after 63 million securities worth S$64.5 million changed hands.

$Seatrium(S51.SG)$ was the morning’s top-traded counter in terms of volume, rising S$0.001 or 0.8 per cent to S$0.125 after 14.8 million of its shares were traded.

Index counters $ThaiBev(Y92.SG)$ and $Singtel(Z74.SG)$ were also actively traded. The beverage giant was trading S$0.015 or 2.5 per cent higher at S$0.605, while the telecommunications provider rose S$0.02 or 0.8 per cent to S$2.59.

$Genting Sing(G13.SG)$ , another STI constituent, fell S$0.04 or 3.6 per cent to S$1.07.

$Dow Jones Industrial Average(.DJI.US)$ less than 0.1 per cent to 33,300.62. The broad-based $S&P 500 Index(.SPX.US)$ shed 0.2 per cent to 4,124.08, while the tech-rich $Nasdaq Composite Index(.IXIC.US)$ declined 0.4 per cent to 12,284.74.