US$ woes a booster for Asian bourses
FRESH weakness in the greenback gave a spur to regional bourses yesterday as big funds, which have borrowed in the ailing dollar, kept up their strategy of buying Asian blue chip stocks.
In Singapore, the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) closed a tad below the 2,800 level, gaining 36.34 points to end at a 15-month high of 2,797.88.
Elsewhere, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 1.4 per cent to 22,771…. more




























