The Singapore stock market on Friday snapped the three-day winning streak in which it had climbed almost 90 points or 2 percent. The Straits Times Index now sits just beneath the 4,550-point plateau and it's looking at another soft start again on Monday.
The global forecast for the Asian markets is soft on concerns over the outlook for interest rates. The European markets were down and the U.S. bourses were mixed and flat and the Asian markets figure to split the difference.
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