Singapore shares track regional gains on Thursday

On the local bourse $SGX(S68.SG)$ , gainers outnumbered losers 309 to 199, after 867 million securities worth S$743 million changed hands.

$FTSE Singapore Straits Time Index(.STI.SG)$ gained 0.4 per cent or 13.34 points to close at 3,269.53.

Elsewhere in Asia, key indices were also up. Gains were led by $Hang Seng Index(800000.HK)$ , which rose 2.7 per cent, followed by the $Korea Composite Index(.KOSPI.KR)$, which gained 1.2 per cent. The KLCI gained 0.4 per cent, while the Nikkei 225 Index was up 0.5 per cent.