THE Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) rental index of retail space in the central region of Singapore slipped 1.2 per cent in the third quarter of 2018 over the previous three months. This follows a 1.1 per cent quarter-on-quarter decline in the previous quarter. However, URA’s price index of retail space in the central region rose 0.3 per cent quarter on quarter in […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE’S manufacturing output took a surprise fall in September, shrinking 0.2 per cent year on year in the first contraction since December 2017, based on preliminary estimates from the Economic Development Board on Friday. But excluding the volatile biomedical manufacturing sector, output grew 1.9 per cent. Coming after three straight months of slowing growth, September’s decrease […]
Read MoreThe US-China trade war has had a limited impact on the Singapore economy so far, but the negative spillovers could become more pronounced in the latter half of 2018 and next year, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said in its half-yearly macroeconomic review on Friday. This could result in a drag to growth in […]
Read More[SINGAPORE] Fewer people were laid off in the third quarter of this year, while overall unemployment crept up slightly, according to Ministry of Manpower (MOM) statistics released on Friday. But overall, the labour market continued to improve, with total employment growth more than doubling in this period, said the ministry. There were 2,500 retrenchments over the past […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE has been moving fast towards achieving industrial transformation by creating both soft and hardware infrastructures to support firms and workers to achieve industry 4.0. While Thailand and many other countries have adopted an industry 4.0 policy to harness disruptive technologies that will advance their economies, Singapore has been doing it in a systematic way. […]
Read MoreSingapore’s core inflation gauge in September missed forecasts and edged down slightly to 1.8 percent from a year earlier due to lower retail inflation, data showed on Tuesday. September’s data comes weeks after Singapore’s central bank tightened monetary policy for the second time this year and announced that inflation is projected to rise in the […]
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