Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Shares slightly down at midday; Noble outperforms

Singapore shares edged lower on Tuesday on persistent euro zone funding concerns, but commodities firm Noble Group rose on news that China’s Yancoal is in talks to buy Noble’s Australian-listed subsidiary Gloucester Coal.
 
At 1:00 p.m., the Straits Times Index (STI) <.FTSTI> was down 0.05%, or 1.18 points, at 2,616.91. Some 289.4 million shares worth $307.5 million had been traded, compared with 376.6 million shares worth $388.2 million around the same time on Monday.
 

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