Market Summary -- 3rd Sep 08

FTSE STI closed 2,706.53, down of 52.41 points with a total volume of 893.0M and total value of 1.204b transacted. Total number of advance vs decline was 167 vs 332. Of the 30 FTSE STI component stocks, 26 of them closed lower while only 4 closed up. The 4 counters that closed up were F&N ( +0.01 ), StarHub ( +0.06 ), ThBev ( + 0.005 ) and Yanlord ( +0.01 ). The 5 worse decliners were CityDev ( -0.480 ), Jardine C&C ( -0.400 ), KepCorp ( -0.320 ), DBS ( -0.300 ) and SIA ( -0.280 ).