At the time of my writing, the Euro 2016 match between Russia and Slovakia is on-going and Slovakia is leading by 2-0 at the moment. Being a soccer fan myself, this set me thinking on whether the kick-off of world's most beautiful sport has much impact to our local SGX trading volumes as well as values? If yes, how great is the impact? So, decided to do a simple compilation of the brief stats (source of date : SGX website) and following is my initial findings :

SGX Trading Volume and Values For The Past 2 Days

In both trading volumes and values, there are double digits drops! Of course, I am not saying that all the drops are caused by Euro 2016 but I do believed that it does play a key part to it. In case you are not aware, Euro 2016 (at France) is a ...  ...