Singapore stocks little changed at Friday’s open

$FTSE Singapore Straits Time Index (.STI.SG)$ rose 1.15 points or 0.04 per cent to 3,228.76. Across the broader market, gainers outnumbered losers 60 to 39 after 45.2 million securities worth S$51.3 million changed hands. 

$MarcoPolo Marine (5LY.SG)$ was the most heavily traded counter by volume. The counter was up 3 per cent or S$0.002 at S$0.068, after 9.9 million securities were transacted.

Other counters that were briskly traded included $BeverlyJCG (9QX.SG)$ which climbed 8.3 per cent or S$0.001 to S$0.013, after 6.4 million shares changed hands, and $King Wan (554.SG)$ which rose 7.7 per cent or S$0.002 to S$0.028, after 4.8 million securities were moved.

Over on Wall Street, tech shares boosted US equities on Thursday amid mixed US inflation data. The tech-heavy $Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC.US)$ advanced 1.7 per cent to 16,442.20, and the broad-based $S&P 500 Index (.SPX.US)$ climbed 0.7 per cent to 5,199.06. $Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI.US)$ closed 0.01 per cent lower at 38,459.08.