Market View: Looking ahead to 2026; S&P 500 Index up over 17% in 2025; China's manufacturing activity unexpectedly grew in December; TSMC says it started mass production of ‘most advanced’ 2nm chips; SUTL Enterprise to watch

Singapore shares dipped today in the last trading day of 2025. The Straits Times Index was down 0.2% at 4,646.27 points at 10.29am Singapore time, with a value turnover of S$199.83M seen in the broader market. In terms of counters to watch, we have SUTL Enterprise, after the marina developer and operator said yesterday that it will acquire Marina at Keppel Bay from Keppel Bay for S$40 million, with the acquisition to be completed in the second half of 2026.  Elsewhere, from how China's manufacturing activity unexpectedly grew in December, to how Taiwanese tech titan TSMC has started mass producing its cutting-edge 2-nanometre semiconductor chips, more international and corporate headlines remained in focus.  On Market View, Money Matters’ finance presenter Chua Tian Tian unpacked the developments with Audrey Ho, Investment Counselor, Citigold Private Client, Citibank Singapore.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.