Singapore stocks opened slightly lower on Friday (Jan 12) following a muted performance on Wall Street overnight.
Data release on Thursday showed that US consumer prices rose more than expected in December, showing signs that it was still premature for the Federal Reserve to be cutting interest rates.
On the Singapore Exchange,$FTSE Singapore Straits Time Index (.STI.SG)$headeddown 0.1 per centor 3.55 points to 3,197.86 as at 9.01 am. Across the broader market, losers outnumbered gainers 64 to 47, after 34.7 million securities worth S$40.4 million changed hands.
The most active counter by volume was$Seatrium (S51.SG)$, whichgained 0.9 per centor S$0.001 to S$0.113 with 3.8 million shares traded.
Other heavily traded securities included$ThaiBev (Y92.SG)$, whichlost 1.8 per centor S$0.01 to S$0.535, with 3.4 million shares traded, as well as$YZJ Shipbldg SGD (BS6.SG)$, whichdeclined 0.6 per centor S$0.01 to S$1.58 with 1.5 million shares traded.
Following the introduction of China's groundbreaking DeepSeek technology, Wall Street giants have revised their investment outlooks for the Chinese market.