business confidence

SINGAPORE (Sept 23): Business confidence for the final quarter has dropped to close to a two year-low, as Singapore’s key manufacturing and wholesale trade sectors brace for a downturn.

SINGAPORE (Apr 15): Gloom pervades the reports we read on the global economy. Data showing a slowdown is described breathlessly as the worst in so many months or years, giving a sense that things are just getting from bad to worse. Now, the International

SINGAPORE (Sept 20): Business confidence among Asian companies fell for the first time in the July-September period as escalating geopolitical tensions outweighed an improved performance by most economies in the region.

SINGAPORE (April 27): Even with the improvement of US household and business confidence, as indicated by the rebound in consumption-related soft data since the US presidential elections, ABN AMRO Group Economics is mindful that hard data has yet to catch