(May 2): There’s been lots of competition for the title of Asia’s best-performing stock market this year. Among the major equity indexes in the region, eight have climbed to records in the first four months alone.

Today, Singapore’s Straits Times Index nudged higher, boosting this year’s gain to 6.2% in local currency terms, and took the top spot from Vietnam’s VN Index, which plunged 2%.

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