Singapore shares jumped on Tuesday after an extended weekend holiday, tracking the strong performance of technology shares on Wall Street and a decline in oil prices.

The Straits Times Index rose 1.57% to 5,260 in morning trading.

AEM Holdings rose 11%; Sats, NIO and Yangzijiang Shipbuilding rose 5%; OCBC and Keppel rose 3%; ST Engineering, Seatrium, SIA, CapitaLandInvest, iFast, SGX, and DBS rose 2%.