Singapore shares climb at Thursday’s open

$FTSE Singapore Straits Time Index (.STI.SG)$ rose 10.06 points or 0.3 per cent to 3,164.75. Across the broader market, gainers outnumbered losers 63 to 43 after 73.8 million securities worth S$64.3 million changed hands.

$Seatrium (S51.SG)$ was the most heavily traded counter by volume. The counter was up S$0.001 or 1.3 per cent at S$0.078, after 37.7 million securities were transacted.

Other counters that were briskly traded included $Genting Sing (G13.SG)$ which remained unchanged at S$0.91, after four million shares changed hands, and $The Place Hldg (E27.SG)$ which rose S$0.002 or 40 per cent to S$0.007, after three million shares were transacted.

Over on Wall Street, main indexes slipped on Wednesday, with chip stocks taking a hit. The tech-rich $Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC.US)$ slipped 1.2 per cent to 15,683.37. The broad-based $S&P 500 Index (.SPX.US)$ shed 0.6 per cent to 5,022.21, while $Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI.US)$ also retreated 0.1 per cent to 37,753.31.