Economists trim outlook for 2015 and 2016: MAS quarterly poll
Actual Q3 GDP up 1.9%, below expectations
Singapore
FORECASTERS have cut their expectations for economic growth in Singapore in 2015 and 2016, amid ongoing manufacturing weakness and a regional slowdown.
In a quarterly poll of professional forecasters done by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) two weeks ago, 22 economists and analysts tempered their outlook for this year's growth in gross domestic product (GDP) from the 2.2 per cent forecast given in the third quarter to 1.9 per cent.
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