Singapore, Dec. 10 -- Regional investors yesterday had to process mixed news from the weekend, including last Friday's unexpectedly strong US job report and Sunday's poor Chinese export data.
Most seemed to focus on the positive, and sent Asian benchmarks higher in Australia, China, Japan and Taiwan, although gains were capped on worries over the effects of the US-China trade scuffle on the Chinese economy.
However, the gainers failed to include Singapore's Straits Times Index (STI), which struggled for direction and spent most of the session hovering around last Friday's close before slipping late in the day to end at 3,179.82, down 14.89 points or 0.5 per cent.
Elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific, Hong Kong was little moved and Malaysia w...