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THE mood among businesses here appears to have been dialled down a notch, even before Singapore recently implemented tighter Covid-19 measures to control a third wave of infections, according to a quarterly business climate survey.
In the second quarter, business optimism over business prospects in the next six months dimmed slightly from the prior quarter, with the net balance in business prospects slipping two points to 27 per cent, the Business Times-Singapore University of Social Sciences (BT-SUSS) Business Climate Survey has showed.
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