SINGAPORE STI STOCKS (12 to 16 Mar 18): WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW?

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STI stocks
Dear readers, notable movements in the STI constituent stocks which you may of interest to you are as follows:
1) CapitaMall Trust: just reached OVERBOUGHT

2) Genting Singapore: OVERSOLD

3) HPH USD Trust: OVERSOLD

4) Jardine C&C: OVERSOLD

5) SPH: coming out from OVERSOLD

6) Starhub: OVERSOLD

7) YangZiJiang: coming out from OVERSOLD Join the emailing list to receive regular Financial and Singapore stocks newsletters too! Like" me on Singapore Stocks Investing Facebook page to receive all posts on your Facebook as well as read more articles. Follow me on Twitter too.

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