Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Singapore Exchange is Asia’s leading and trusted market infrastructure, facilitating the exchange of capital and ideas to create value for people, businesses and economies. As a multi-asset exchange operating equity, fixed income and derivatives markets to the highest regulatory standards, SGX is a vertically integrated business that provides listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services.

With about 40% of listed companies and over 80% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore as well as established linkages across the region and in Europe, SGX is Asia’s most international and connected exchange. Offering a full suite of derivatives products across Asian equity indices, commodities and currencies, SGX is the world’s most liquid international market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN.

As Asia’s pioneering central counterparty, SGX is globally recognised for its risk management and clearing capabilities, and was one of the first globally to adopt the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructure.

Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, SGX has over 800 employees including offices in Beijing, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York, Mumbai, San Francisco, Shanghai and Tokyo.

Asia’s leading multi-asset exchange

SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income, Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Geoff Howie

SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>FOR the five trading sessions that spanned Dec 2 to 8, the Straits Times Index (STI) declined 7 per cent, with the Hang Seng Index gaining 3.7 per cent and the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI slipping 1.6 per cent.</li><li>Overall, institutions were net sellers of Singapore stocks for the five sessions ended Dec 8 with S$359 million of net outflow.</li><li>A married deal on Dec 5 saw Wee Hur Holdings executive chairman and managing director Goh Yeow Lian acquire one million shares at 20 cents per share, increasing his total interest from 44.41 per cent to 44.52 per cent.</li></ul>

FOR the five trading sessions that spanned Dec 2 to 8, the Straits Times Index (STI) declined 7 per cent, with the Hang Seng Index gaining 3.7 per cent and the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI slipping 1.6 per cent.Overall, institutions were net sellers of Singapore stocks for the five sessions ended Dec 8 with S$359 million of net outflow.A married deal on Dec 5 saw Wee Hur Holdings executive chairman and managing director Goh Yeow Lian acquire one million shares at 20 cents per share, increasing his total interest from 44.41 per cent to 44.52 per cent.

Wilmar, Wee Hur and TCA chairmen add to their stakes