Singapore stocks rise at Monday’s open
Singapore shares inched up at the opening bell on Monday (Apr 22) morning, eking out a gain despite subdued performance in global markets.
$FTSE Singapore Straits Time Index(.STI.SG$ rose 3.56 points or 0.1 per cent to 3,180.07. Across the broader market, advancers outnumbered decliners 79 to 36 after 38 million securities worth S$47.3 million changed hands.
$Seatrium(S51.SG$ was the most heavily traded counter by volume. The counter remained unchanged at S$0.077, after 12.6 million securities were transacted.
Other counters that were briskly traded included $Genting Sing(G13.SG$ which was up 0.5 per cent or S$0.005 at S$0.925, after 1.8 million shares changed hands, and $King Wan(554.SG$ which traded flat at S$0.027, after 1.5 million securities were exchanged.
Over on Wall Street, the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 closed in the red on Friday, partially attributed by analysts to $Netflix(NFLX.US$ ’s lower than expected financial earnings. The tech-heavy $Nasdaq Composite Index(.IXIC.US$ dipped 2.1 per cent to 15,282.01, while the broad-based $S&P 500 Index(.SPX.US$ declined 0.9 per cent to 4,967.23.
$Dow Jones Industrial Average(.DJI.US$ was partially boosted by hotter than expected first-quarter financial results from payments company American Express, closing up 0.6 per cent at 37,986.40.
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