Singapore stocks open lower on Friday

$FTSE Singapore Straits Time Index(.STI.SG)$ dropped 8.05 points or 0.2 per cent to 3,296.01. Across the broader market, gainers outnumbered losers 73 to 39 after 86.42 million securities worth S$60.1 million changed hands.

The most actively traded counter by volume was $Addvalue Tech - watch list(A31.SG)$ with its share price up S$0.005, or 45.5 per cent after 32 million of its securities were transacted.

$Seatrium(S51.SG)$ had 17.9 million of its securities traded with its share price rose by S$0.001, or 0.8 per cent, to S$0.135.

Another counter that was heavily traded was $YZJ Shipbldg SGD(BS6.SG)$ , with its share price increased 1.9 per cent to S$1.58 after 8.8 million of its securities changed hands.

$Dow Jones Industrial Average(.DJI.US)$ dropped 0.2 per cent to 35,215.89, while the broad-based $S&P 500 Index(.SPX.US)$ fell 0.3 per cent to 4,501.85. The tech-heavy $Nasdaq Composite Index(.IXIC.US)$ dipped 0.1 per cent to 13,959.72.