Wednesday, March 20, 2013

SGX STOCKS NEWS : Index down, Olam trades rise up

Its continuation for Singapore shares, that were down. Bailout plan that report that Cyprus fell into disarray, but Olam LTD grow up to 4th month high.

The Straits Times Index was below 0.2 % at 3,261.38 . while 0.3 % gained by MSCI's broadest index.

The highest fall of more then 1% notice on Singapore Press Holdings and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd .

For Olam, it rise up 2.6 % to S$1.76 with 13 million shares traded. It had grown up as much as 22 percent after Muddy Waters criticised its accounting practices, high debt levels & investment projects in late November.

Beside this Market balanced up after SGX state investor Temasek Holdings supported Olam's rights issue and raised its stake to become the company's biggest shareholder.

In last month, Olam notice a 20% up in 2nd Quarter net profit & informed that it iwl recheck its business priorities and free cash flow targets. The next announcement will come on 2nd half of April.

"The strategic review has partly boosted investors' confidence, but investors are adopting a wait-and-see attitude towards Olam to see if it can generate enough cashflow from the investments," a trader said.

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