Singapore
shares were up slightly on the opening session, but after that it
fails to continue the same trend and closed lower.
STI
opens 3168.06 levels and then it made a day high of 3173.22, but
faced resistance @ this level and then fell down and took support @
3150.40 levels. Finally closed @ 3158.70 levels with loss of 9.73
points down by 0.31%.Volume
were 1.95 billion shares worth S$1.02 billion. Losers outnumbered
gainers 260 to 182.
Singapore's
non-oil domestic exports (NODX) declined by 2.5% in November,
compared to the 7.9% increase in the previous month. The figure was
worst than market expectations for a 2.1% rise. On a month-on-month
basis, exports decreased marginally by 0.3 % in November, following
the previous month's 1.2% contraction.