Holiday season makes for STI's dull start
The benchmark index was little changed at 3,214 on a shortened trading week with Christmas around the corner
THE lack of fresh leads - commonplace towards the end of the year - made for an uninspiring start to the trading week, which itself serves as a reminder that Christmas is just around the corner.
On Monday, Singapore's Straits Times Index (STI), which stayed range-bound, opened with a slight loss but steadily overturned the dip to close at 3,214, eking out a 1.61-point or 0.05 per cent gain in the process.
Elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific, markets were mixed. Malaysia and Taiwan were h…
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