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Singapore August manufacturing surges 13.7% on-year, beats forecasts

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s industrial output rose 13.7% year-on-year in August, beating economists’ expectations, buoyed by a 44.2% jump in electronics production, official data showed on Friday. Economists had expected a 4.6% increase, according to the median of their forecasts in a Reuters poll. Industrial production marked its first rise after three straight months of contraction on […]

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Malaysia: Fiscal deficit to be under 6.5% of GDP

KUALA LUMPUR: UOB global economics and market research expects the additional initiatives worth RM10bil under the “KITA PRIHATIN” will be partly funded by unutilised allocations from other initiatives. In its research note on Friday, it said the initiatives could also be possibly financed under Budget 2021 as some of the measures carry through into January […]

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Thailand: BoT starting digital factoring next year

The Bank of Thailand plans to implement digital factoring next year to facilitate small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) access to loans. Factoring businesses provide an intermediate solution for liquidity problems caused by delayed payments. The idea behind the process is suppliers sell the invoices of a customer or debtor to a factoring business at a […]

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