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SINGAPORE (Sept 19):  Against a backdrop of sluggish economic growth, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat is hoping to position Singapore as the global node of Asia, hailing greater regional collaboration to pick up the momentum.

SINGAPORE (Sept 16): How will the five largest economies in the world perform over the next few years? If there is a surprise to the GDP growth forecasts for this year and next, the participants of a recent survey expect that to be tilted to the downside.

SINGAPORE (Aug 19): Even as Singapore teeters on the edge of a technical recession, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says there’s no need yet for immediate economic stimulus measures.

SINGAPORE (Aug 12): Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng, who is slated to table Budget 2020 on Oct 11, has said that meeting the country’s fiscal consolidation targets will be “challenging” on the back of the US-China trade war, but added that the governm

SINGAPORE (Nov 20): Singapore is set to continue on its upward hiring trajectory this year given its strong position in the market, as highlighted by the third quarterly Monster Employment Index (MEI) report by Monster, the online career & recruitment pla

SINGAPORE (Oct 26): Singapore's economy is poised for slower but "enduring" growth even as trade tensions remain at the forefront of considerations for global growth prospects, the city-state’s central bank sid in a Friday report.

(June 20): While economic fundamentals and earnings results remain strong, the MSCI AC Asia Pacific index has underperformed the MSCI AC World Index year to date. What has happened?

(Apr 12): The World Bank raised its growth forecast for East Asia and the Pacific for 2018, but warned that a possible US-China trade war could harm growth in countries that are part of the Chinese goods supply chain.

SINGAPORE (Mar 5): The unveiling of the Budget for 2018 has triggered a healthy debate on how the likely pressures for more government social spending in Singapore should be funded. The government has proposed a two-percentage-point rise in the Goods and

SINGAPORE (Dec 18): HSBC Global Research says Singapore’s domestic economy could improve, even as GDP growth is forecast to ease to 2.7% in 2018, from the 3.3% expected in 2017.