Singapore warns of slower 2026 growth after third-quarter GDP beats expectations

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An aerial presumption of Singapore's Marina Bay Street Circuit connected Sept. 17, 2024.

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Singapore's system expanded faster than expected successful the 3rd quarter, adjacent arsenic the country's cardinal slope warned that maturation is apt to dilatory successful 2026.

Gross home merchandise roseate 2.9% twelvemonth connected twelvemonth successful the 3 months done September, the Singapore Department of Statistics said Tuesday.

That bushed economists' forecasts for a 1.9% increase, though it marked a slowdown from a revised 4.5% enlargement successful the 2nd quarter.

On a seasonally adjusted, quarter-on-quarter basis, the system expanded by 1.3%, easing somewhat from 1.5% successful the erstwhile quarter.

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"Growth was weighed down by output declines successful the biomedical manufacturing and wide manufacturing clusters, adjacent arsenic output successful the different manufacturing clusters expanded," the country's Ministry of Trade and Industry said successful its release.

The slowdown comes arsenic the MAS held its argumentation dependable arsenic well, continuing from its erstwhile determination successful July when it kept its monetary argumentation unchanged.

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