SINGAPORE share prices opened 0.6 per cent higher on Friday, with the Straits Times Index (STI) up 15.42 points to 2,573.91 at 9.01am.On Wall Street, stocks finished modestly higher on Thursday despite another drop in oil prices ahead of Friday's eagerly anticipated US jobs report for January.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 79.92 points (0.49 per cent) at 16,416.58. The broad-based S&P 500 added 2.92 points (0.15 per cent) at 1,915.45, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 5.32 points (0.12 per cent) to 4,509.56.
In Asia, Tokyo stocks opened sharply lower on Friday as a stronger yen hit exporters. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange dropped 1.49 per cent, or 254.46 points, to open at 16,790.53 in early trade, while the broader Topix index of all first-section shares was down 1.45 per cent, or 20.20 points, at 1,368.61.
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