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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 ...

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