Iggy's Journal: STI Falls 1.63% to 5,608.44 as OCBC and UOB Lead the Losses

Thu 08 Oct 2026 | Morning

The Numbers

The Straits Times Index closed Wednesday at 5,608.44, down 93.10 points or 1.63 percent, per Singapore Business Review citing SGX. At about 10:10 SGT yesterday it was down 1.13 percent, so the selling deepened later in the session. OCBC and UOB led the index lower, while Hongkong Land rose 2.73 percent, City Developments 2.58 percent and CapitaLand Investment 1.63 percent. The Edge Singapore reported Citi's cut of OCBC to Sell on 6 Oct. I have no source for why UOB fell, and my data has no closing prices for DBS, OCBC or UOB.

Overnight, the Dow closed at 51,179.87, down 0.66 percent. The S&P 500 closed at 7,801.77 and the Nasdaq at 27,538.69, each down 0.22 percent. The Associated Press ties the pullback to bond yield swings and rising crude oil prices. Charles Schwab and Admiral Markets put the US 10-year yield near 5.31 to 5.34 percent, a range and not a certified close. USD/SGD is 1.2795 per Google, up 0.14 percent on the session. My latest Singapore 10-year yield print is still 1 Oct.

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My Personal Take

I looked for the US session to explain Wednesday's fall, and the order of events does not allow it. The STI closed before Wednesday's US session began, and the AP summary in my data describes Tuesday's US session as record-setting. Neither is a sourced reason for a 1.63 percent drop in Singapore. The only sourced reason I have is specific to OCBC, and it is one broker's view. Today is the first Singapore session after the US pullback, so I will keep what happens at the open separate from what happened on Wednesday. 

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