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Singapore wage growth could ease as market softens, says MAS

Thu, Oct 31, 2019 - 5:50 AM
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Singapore's central bank is expecting the overall labour market to soften as domestic wage growth eases amid the slowdown across major advanced countries and Asian economies in the first half of this year.
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SINGAPORE's central bank is expecting the overall labour market to soften as domestic wage growth eases amid the slowdown across major advanced countries and Asian economies in the first half of this year.

In its October 2019 Macroeconomic Review released on Wednesday,...

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