Singapore stocks ended the day lower on Tuesday amid escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine. The benchmark Straits Times Index, or STI, was a sea of red as all 30 of its constituents either fell or ended flat, closing 1 per cent or 35.78 points lower to hit a 1-week low of 3,400.58. Elsewhere, major indices in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea closed with deeper losses of between 1.4 per cent and 2.7 per cent.
Wall Street stocks fell sharply on Tuesday after US President Joe Biden announced new sanctions on Russia following its latest escalations in the Ukraine crisis. Biden, in a White House address, said the penalties on Russia would go "far beyond" existing sanctions and include moves to cut the country off from Western financing by targeting Moscow's sovereign debt. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down 1.4 per cent, or about 480 points, at 33,596.61. The broad-based S&P 500 dropped 1.0 per cent to 4,304.76, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index slid 1.2 per cent to 13,381.52.
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