Thursday, September 4, 2008

Market Summary -- 4th Sep 08

FTSE STI closed 2,626.05, down 80.48 points or 2.97%, lowest since October 2006. Of the 30 component stocks, only 1 closed in the positive ie HKLand +0.01, ThBev remained unchanged and the rest of the 28 component stocks all ended in the red. Top 5 losers for the component stocks were :-

1. Jardine C&C -0.680
2. CityDev -0.590
3. KepCorp -0.530
4. UOB -0.500
5. wilmar -0.340

Overall market, number of advancer vs decliner was 131 vs 396.

Commodity, Property and oil/offshore marine stocks led the fall. Total volume for the day was 1.22b and total value was S$1.624b