Wall Street extended its gains for the second straight session as the Dow rose 1.3%, in line with the recovery in crude oil prices. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 rose 1.0%, erasing its monthly losses , led by gains in the financial sector (+1.4%) while the Nasdaq added 0.9%.
The FBM KLCI closed lower for the second straight session yesterday, spooked by the rout in China stockmarkets. The MACD Histogram has extended another red bar, while the RSI continues to hover above the 50 level. The immediate resistance will be envisaged around the 1,700 level. Support will be pegged around the 1,600-1,630 levels. EFORCE (0065): Monitor for a breakout above the RM0.915 level. TP: RM1.00. SL: RM0.89.
UCHITEC (7100): Price has formed a BPC formation above the RM1.60 level. TP: RM1.80-RM2.00. SL: RM1.58.
MAGNA (7617): Monitor for a breakout above the RM1.06 level. TP: RM1.15-RM1.24. SL: RM1.00.
The FBM KLCI index gained 20.21 points or 1.21% on Wednesday. The Finance Index increased 0.91% to 14268.24 points, the Properties Index up 0.11% to 1136.99 points and the Plantation Index rose 0.35% to 7848.88 points. The market traded within a range of 16.38 points between an intra-day high of 1691.03 and a low of 1674.65 during the session.
Actively traded stocks include AIRASIA, AAX, APFT, SKH, SKPETRO, GENETEC, MINETEC, XOX, TIGER and JADI. Trading volume decreased to 1664.69 mil shares worth RM2278.63 mil as compared to Tuesday’s 1673.90 mil shares worth RM1648.28 mil.
Leading Movers were SKPETRO (+8 sen to RM2.05), MAXIS (+22 sen to RM6.42), DIGI (+15 sen to RM5.08), SIME (+20 sen to RM7.90) and GENTING (+17 sen to RM8.39). Lagging Movers were UMW (-8 sen to RM6.97), KLCC (-3 sen to RM7.02), KLK (-2 sen to RM23.88), GENM (-0 sen to RM4.31) and PET- DAG (-2 sen to RM25.00). Market breadth was positive with 478 gainers as compared to 375 losers.
The KLCI closed higher at 1691.03 points with last minute spike before the closing bell amid overnight gains in US Market following the better-than-expected manufacturing data. The performance of our local bourse was in tandem with our regional peers and lifted by buying interest in heavy weight counters such as SapuraKencana Petroleum, Maxis and Digi.com.
Genting Hong Kong (GenHK) has acquired Nordic Yards’ three shipyards in Wismar, Warnemunde and Stralsund, Germany, for the consideration of 230.6 million euros (RM1.04bil).
The global leisure, entertainment and hospitality company said in a statement that these purchases, along with that of Lloyd Werft last year (also in Germany), enabled GenHK to realise its global cruise ships fleet strategy over the next decade for its three brands - Crystal Cruises, Dream Cruises, and Star Cruises.
“The rapid growth of the world cruise industry, especially in China, has led to cruise ship order book reaching an all-time high,” said GenHK chairman and chief executive officer Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay.
“In order to ensure that the company can build the required number of cruise ships in the next decade for our global fleet expansion, it is strategic that we acquired shipyards that can build our cruise ships in a timely basis and in a more cost effective manner
Wall Street extended its gains for the second straight session as the Dow rose 1.3%, in line with the recovery in crude oil prices. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 rose 1.0%, erasing its monthly losses , led by gains in the financial sector (+1.4%) while the Nasdaq added 0.9%.
