Thursday, October 23, 2008

STI Today

Suddenly, Straits Times Index (STI) had back dated to Dec 2003 / Jan 2004! All the years of hard work had been reset to Zero in just weeks. The main STI Index was off 75.07 points to 1746.06, a fall of 4.12% this morning as continued worries that the global economic crunch would hit local corporate earnings.

Deep recession fears slam stocks tumbled to 4 year lows as investors grappled with an increasingly dire outlook for the global economy following a raft of disappointing profits and outlooks from major U.S. companies.

How bad had the credit crisis damaged the global economy? Are we at the pit bottom yet?

At least we have a piece of good news that DBS Bank will pay $70 million to $80 million in compensation to customers in Singapore and Hong Kong who bought its Lehman Brothers-related structured products, now almost worthless because they were linked to the collapsed investment bank. Some investors stand to get all their money back, while others may only get a partial payment. Hong Leong Finance has also followed.

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