Straits Times Index finishes the week down 1.15%
THE Straits Times Index (STI) rose 14.36 points or 0.55 per cent to finish at 2,604.51 on Friday, but ended the week 1.15 per cent lower than a week ago as the benchmark index see-sawed through a series of election news and continued fears of a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
On Friday, some 5.45 billion shares changed hands - an unusually high volume - although it appears that most of the activity was centred on penny stocks as the securities traded were only worth S$986.…
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