Weekly Wrap of STI Singapore:
It
was a truncate week for Singapore equities and also with the Easter
holiday STI flourished and gain made a high @3321 levels.
STI
open flat @ 3268.13 levels and then it traded straight upward
direction and on the last trading day of this week made a high
@3321.62 and finally closed @ 3308.01 with gain of 49.44 points up by
1.59% wow basis.
Economic
data:
Singapore's
consumer price index rose a faster than expected 4.9 % in February
from a year ago. Economists polled by Reuters were expecting an
inflation rate of 4.1 % in February, up from 3.6 % in January.
Singapore
on a
year-on-year basis, manufacturing output contracted 16.6% in
February 2013, partly attributed to lower activities over the Lunar
New Year period. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, output fell
16.2%. On a three-month moving average basis, manufacturing output
declined 4.9% in February 2013, compared to a year ago. On a
seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, manufacturing output
declined 0.7% in February 2013 compared to January 2013.
The
general manufacturing cluster's output contracted 11.5% in
February 2013 on a year-on-year basis. The decline was registered
across all segments as many firms shut down during the Lunar New
Year period.