SGX Singapore Opening Market Update

SINGAPORE share prices opened higher on Monday with the Straits Times Index up 7.35 points to 3,398.55.

Volume was 162.0 million shares worth S$303.5 million.

Gainers outnumbered losers 86 to 70.

Forex Market Update

The ICE U.S. Dollar Index finished the week lower Friday, after weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter gross domestic product data weighed on the greenback.

The index, a measure of the dollar’s strength against a trade-weighted basket of six rival currencies, finished the week at 94.87, down 0.1% from last Friday’s close

The dollar rose USDRUB, +0.88%  to a record high of 72.51 rubles in early trade, before recovering to 69.65 rubles to the dollar. 

The loonie CADUSD, -0.86%  traded at 78.56 cents, just above a six-year low reached earlier in the session, compared with 79.30 cents Thursday.

The buck recently USDJPY, -0.64%  changed hands at ¥117.46 compared with ¥118.29 late Thursday in New York.

Naural Gas Market Update

March natural gas NGH15, -1.62%  shed 3 cents to settle at $2.69 per million British thermal units.

Heating oil for February HOG5, +6.08%  settled up by 7 cents at $1.69 a gallon, while gasoline RBG5, +6.85% for the same month also jumped by 7 cents to $1.42 a gallon.