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Weekly SGX Wrap: The Five-Thousand Point Flinch

If you walk into the Tampines Hub Hawker Centre on a Saturday morning right now, the mood is subtly different from the usual weekend bustle. Between the queues for minced meat noodles and the clacking of kopi cups, the uncles are not just debating the latest English Premier League scores or the Budget 2026 surplus—they are staring at their phones, watching the Straits Times Index (STI) hover like a nervous bird just below the 5,000-point psychological ceiling.

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