SINGAPORE – Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports (Nodx) rose in April, due mainly to a jump in pharmaceuticals from a low base, Enterprise Singapore data showed on Monday (May 18). Nodx increased 9.7 per cent last month from a year earlier, backed by a 12.8 per cent surge in non-electronics exports that included a 174.3 per cent […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE – New private home sales plunged to a five-year low last month and are expected to remain low in May as showflat galleries stay closed and new launches are pushed back further because of the extended circuit breaker. Developers in Singapore sold 277 private homes last month, down 58 per cent from 660 homes in […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE experienced a steep decline in real estate investment volume in the first quarter this year, with transactions tumbling 78 per cent year on year (y-o-y) to US$432 million, according to Real Capital Analytics’ (RCA) Asia-Pacific (Apac) Capital Trends report. The steep drop was partly due to the comparison with a record year in 2019, […]
Read MoreSingapore rose to become the biggest foreign investor in Vietnam in the first four months of 2020 with 5.07 billion USD, accounting for 41 percent of the total. It was followed by Thailand and Japan, with 1.46 billion USD and 1.16 billion USD, respectively, according the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency (FIA). […]
Read MoreEXPORT-oriented economies in South-east Asia could take longer to recover from the coronavirus-led slowdown, compared with those with lower exposure to the impact of the global recession, a report from Morgan Stanley suggests. This means that economies like Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore may have to wait until the first quarter of 2021 to recover, the […]
Read MoreRESALE volume for condominiums in Singapore tumbled 57.3 per cent in April to 309 units resold, compared with 723 units in March, according to flash estimates from real estate portal SRX Property released on Tuesday. Year on year, resale volume was 62.2 per cent lower and 66.8 per cent lower than the five-year average volumes […]
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