Morning Highlights

Singapore Stocks advanced on the back of a higher close on Wall Street overnight, with the STI open up 16.53 points at 2737.40. High chance that our market will hold above 2700 for today, hence, we would likely not to be doing any shorting even if the stocks were to breakout today. The Quick Picks remain as a reference.

  • Sin Heng open at 0.335 (New Trade Opportunity: To Buy at 0.355, Stop Loss at 0.325 and Take Profit at 0.385)

Market is seen retracing after 10:00.

Corporate Announcement

  1. CapitaMalls Asia announced a maiden year net profit of $388 million in FY09 and a 4Q09 net profit of $170 million. The company proposed a first and final dividend of $0.01 per share.
  2. Straits Asia has signed a five-year contract to supply coal from its Jembayan mine in East Kalimantan, Indonesia to the Adani Group.

News Updates

  1. U.S. stock indexes inch upward early Tuesday; Alcoa, H-P and Amex are the top blue-chip gainers‏.
  2. Index of pending U.S. home sales rises 1% in December‏.
  3. Ford’s January U.S. sales rise 24%; market share increases 2% points
  4. U.S. stocks rally again for best 2 days in 3 months; Dow rises 111 points.  

Quick Picks: Here is a quick pick screen that we have designed to pick out potential stocks, both Bullish and Bearish. These are measured with emphasis on larger changes in price and volume. 

Bearish Stocks (Singapore)

Symbol

Name

Entry

SL

TSL

TP

Remarks
1 SIAT Singapore Airport Terminal Services 2.42 2.64 2.20
2 DBSM DBS Group 13.98 14.46 13.50 CANCELLED
3 OCBC Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp 8.07 8.37 7.77 CANCELLED
4 STRL Straits Asia Resources 2.09 2.25 1.93 CANCELLED
5 IFAR Indofood Agri Resources 1.90 2.09 1.71 CANCELLED
6 SINO Sinomem Technologies 0.465 0.54 0.39
7 SIAL Singapore Airlines 13.42 14.02 12.82 CANCELLED
8 HKLD Hong Kong Land 4.55 4.70 4.40 NOT ENTERED
9 EZRA Ezra Holdings 2.03 2.25 1.81 CANCELLED
10 HBEE Ho Bee Investment 1.60 1.75 1.45  
11 HSEN Hiap Seng Engineering 0.57 0.64 0.50  

Stock Prices last updated at 16.37 (Singapore Time)

Afternoon Highlights

We have entered our position for Sin Heng. We are targeting for a quick profit, hence, likely to close the position by end of today. (queuing to sell at 0.385) – Closed at 0.365

Index broke through short term resistance at 2767.43. Support is seen at 2720.87.

  • Mitsubishi UFJ posts 9-month profit
  • DBS plans to open at least 12 branches in China over next 5 years

In Summary,

Market trades strongly in the afternoon session and break through resistance. This is a positive sign that market is well supported at 2700 point. It is likely that market will consolidate for a while before marching towards 3000 points.

The STI closed up 43.97 points at 2764.84, with 1.6999 billion traded.

We see strong performance from SIA in today’s session. Lookout for recent IPO, particularly Tiger Airway. Stock look good on the upside, will expect it to retest the high of 1.61.

Other IPOs to take note on its high created since listing:

  1. Hafary high of 0.25
  2. Ryobi Kiso high of 0.295