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18-09-2015, 08:30 AM
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The odds are not in the country's favor, experts say.
The threat of recession is practically banging on Singapore’s gates after the city-state released a set of unexpedly weak export figures in August.
Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports (NODX) booked a steep 8.4% year-on-year drop last month, much more severe than consensus expectations of a 3.5% contraction. Analysts warn that the poor numbers paint a dire picture of Singapore’s manufacturing sector, which contributes around a third of total economic output.
“The economy is on the verge of a technical recession. Indeed, the manufacturing sector is already in recession, having contracted for 3 consecutive quarters in year-on-year terms and for 3 out of the past 5 quarters on a sequential basis. Today’s set of numbers will only add to the recession side of the scale,” said DBS economist Irvin Seah.
Seah also noted that “the ugliest part” of today’s data is the 4.6% month-on-month decline in NODX, which has effectively wiped out the 0.2% gain in the previous month.
Hak Bin Chua, ASEAN Economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said that the weakness in manufacturing is unlikely to be set off by the services sector, which also expects slower growth in the third quarter.
“The odds are more than even that the Singapore economy slipped into a technical recession in the third quarter, in our view. A technical recession will mean that GDP growth probably fell below that revised range, probably around 1%-1.5% for the full year,” he said.
Analysts are not holding out for an export recovery in the near-term. UOB Economist Francis Tan warned that the sharper-than-expected NODX decline is tied to the slowdown among SIngapore’s key trading partners, a trend that is unlikely to reverse in coming months
“The deflationary environment that had been plaguing Singapore’s trading partners due to the lower oil and other commodity prices is exerting its impact not just on oil-related exports, but had spilled-over to non-oil related exports. The dovish reactions by many central banks since the start of this year had further aggravated the decline in their respective currencies against the SGD, resulting in both a decline in Singapore’s export competitiveness,” Tan noted.
https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/si...042800136.html (https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/singapore-teeters-brink-recession-unexpectedly-042800136.html)
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The odds are not in the country's favor, experts say.
The threat of recession is practically banging on Singapore’s gates after the city-state released a set of unexpedly weak export figures in August.
Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports (NODX) booked a steep 8.4% year-on-year drop last month, much more severe than consensus expectations of a 3.5% contraction. Analysts warn that the poor numbers paint a dire picture of Singapore’s manufacturing sector, which contributes around a third of total economic output.
“The economy is on the verge of a technical recession. Indeed, the manufacturing sector is already in recession, having contracted for 3 consecutive quarters in year-on-year terms and for 3 out of the past 5 quarters on a sequential basis. Today’s set of numbers will only add to the recession side of the scale,” said DBS economist Irvin Seah.
Seah also noted that “the ugliest part” of today’s data is the 4.6% month-on-month decline in NODX, which has effectively wiped out the 0.2% gain in the previous month.
Hak Bin Chua, ASEAN Economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said that the weakness in manufacturing is unlikely to be set off by the services sector, which also expects slower growth in the third quarter.
“The odds are more than even that the Singapore economy slipped into a technical recession in the third quarter, in our view. A technical recession will mean that GDP growth probably fell below that revised range, probably around 1%-1.5% for the full year,” he said.
Analysts are not holding out for an export recovery in the near-term. UOB Economist Francis Tan warned that the sharper-than-expected NODX decline is tied to the slowdown among SIngapore’s key trading partners, a trend that is unlikely to reverse in coming months
“The deflationary environment that had been plaguing Singapore’s trading partners due to the lower oil and other commodity prices is exerting its impact not just on oil-related exports, but had spilled-over to non-oil related exports. The dovish reactions by many central banks since the start of this year had further aggravated the decline in their respective currencies against the SGD, resulting in both a decline in Singapore’s export competitiveness,” Tan noted.
https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/si...042800136.html (https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/singapore-teeters-brink-recession-unexpectedly-042800136.html)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?216564-S-pore-on-brink-of-recession&goto=newpost).