Share prices opened flat with the Straits Times Index up 0.72 pointsto 3370.77. Asian shares got off to a lacklustre start, as a sharp sell off in commodities and political uncertainty in Greece made investors less willing to take risks in the final trading days of 2014. STOCKS To Pick High of the day was 3373.93 and low was 3359.29. STI Day Performance
Open: 3370.77
High: 3373.93
Low: 3359.29
Close: 3366.11
Change (in Points): -1.58
%Change: -0.5
Volume: 924.8M
Rise: 181
Fall: 174
Unch: 434
Market forecast for STI: Asian stocks are falling down as oil hits risk sentiment, from last three days STI was in bullish so now it is in correction mode. We may expect STI will be in consolidation face.
Technical Indicators: RSI is at 59 and CCI is at 115.
STRAITS TIME LEVELS
Support 1: 3340
Support 2: 3330
Support 3: 3320
Resistance 1: 3360
Resistance 2: 3370
Resistance 3: 3380
Macroeconomic factors:
- Net demand for office space in Singapore in 2014 was slightly lower at 1.36 million square feet in 2014, as compared to 1.45 million sq ft for 2013.
- A second ex-president of Singapore Technologies Marine Ltd (ST Marine) has been charged in court, in a corruption scandal that has implicated six of its former high level executives.
- SBI Offshore has bagged a procurement contract for drilling equipment systems of a semi-submersible offshore rig to be built in China.
- Oil prices have halved this year, dragging on firms involved in Asian energy projects as costs remain high amid dwindling revenues, yet equity analysts continue to have a largely positive industry outlook.
- Gross domestic product was seen expanding 2.0 per cent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, moderating from 2.8 per cent year-on-year growth in the third quarter, according to the median forecast in the poll of 12 economists.DBS Group
- Holdings made a clean sweep of all three Singapore awards at the recent IFR Asia Awards 2014.