First full week stock market trade for 2014 starts

THE first full week trade for the country’s stock market will start today with an outlook that has somehow improved compared to how some previously predicted the local market would be this year.

“Investors will start the first full week of trades practically where it ended 2013. We expect volume and value turnover to pick up substantially as liquidity in the region rises with Japanese markets rejoining the action,” Jun Calaycay, Accord Capital Equities Corp. analyst, said.