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Annabeth Leow
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SINGAPORE now sits in the liminal period between the Finance Minister's Budget speech and the various ministries' debates on spending.
While taxpayers wait for more details on the slew of measures announced in last Monday's Budget, they can content themselves with the writing on the wall in the form of monthly economic data updates. January factory output numbers are due this afternoon, and the February Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) survey - an early indicator of production - is slated for release on Friday.
Trade numbers have already helped the economy to start 2018 on the right foot, with non-oil domestic exports for January recently clocking 13 per cent year-on-year growth.
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