SINGAPORE – The Straits Times Index (STI) rose 34.17 points or 1.1 per cent to close at 3,173.93 on Tuesday, paring some losses from the previous session on the back of gains on Wall Street.
The rebound was led by the three local banks. DBS jumped 2.1 per cent to $32.91, UOB added 1.7 per cent to $28.68, while OCBC ended 1 per cent higher at $12.20.
In the wider Singapore market, gainers outnumbered losers 319 to 234, with 1.34 billion securities worth $967.5 million traded.
“With S&P 500 in positive territory coupled with the additional fact that implied volatility is falling back to nearly unchanged from where it was marked before this storm hit, the pattern suggests the market has mostly ring-fenced, if not cauterised, the bleeding and extreme stresses in the banking sector,” said SPI Asset Management managing partner Stephen Innes.
Flagship carrier Singapore Airlines was the top performer among the STI constituents, rising 2.3 per cent to end at $5.69.
At the bottom of the table was spirits maker Emperador, which gave back gains in the previous session to close 1 per cent lower at 51 cents.
Emperador was one of only four STI stocks that ended lower on Tuesday. The other blue-chip losers were Singapore Exchange, DFI Retail Group and Hongkong Land, which shed between 0.2 per cent and 0.5 per cent.
The most actively traded constituent stock was Yangzijiang Shipbuilding, which finished 0.9 per cent higher at $1.19, after 40.7 million shares changed hands.
Most key Asian markets also ended higher, with Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index, the Shanghai Composite Index, South Korea’s Kospi Composite Index and the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI up between 0.3 per cent and 1.4 per cent. THE BUSINESS TIMES
