FTSE STI ended 2019 at 3222.83 compared with 3068.76 a year ago, representing a gain of  154.07 point or 5.02%.  It was a good year for global stock market with US markets leading the top performance of more than 20% for the year.  This happened despite the year long ongoing trade war between the US and China which started in 2018.  After few round of tit-for-tat sparring between the 2, they have finally reached a "Phase One" deal to prevent further escalation.  The deal as of now is expected to be signed on the 15th January 2020.  Much detail on the deal still remain unclear.  Since it is just a "Phase One" and not sure how many more phases it can go on, expectation for the "Phase One" should not remain high and of any high quality.  The following s

The weekly 4 Stocks This Week column on DollarsAndSense was started in 2017 with a simple objective was simple: to provide a convenient read each week for busy investors to stay updated with what is happening on the Singapore Exchange. 4 Stock This Week is not a recommendation from us to buy or sell any of the stocks that wke feature. Its purpose is to highlight interesting stocks that investors should be aware of, rather than to analyse these stocks. For this week’s edition, instead of the usual coverage of four stocks, we’ll do a year in review of the other 51 instalments of 4 Stocks This Week that our team has written in 2019. Over the past year (51 weeks), we’ve covered 123 SGX-listed stocks, 4 ETFs and 8 Daily Leverage Certificates. The most covered stock was Sas