PMI

It is not just anecdotal evidence or statistics rolled out by China’s State Council Information Office, but also by updates from companies themselves: China is going back to work, slowly but surely.

SINGAPORE (Sept 4): Activity in Singapore factories expanded at its fastest pace in almost three years, buoyed by expansion in new orders, new exports and factory output, a survey showed on Monday.

SINGAPORE (Feb 3): Globally, growth has continued from its rising trend in 2016 into the new year. Bank of Singapore believes that means the world is getting further away from the risk of deflation and that there could be changes in the monetary policies

SINGAPORE (Nov 18): The contraction in external trade in 4Q16 will be another drag on Singapore’s GDP growth as the economy have already slowed to 0.6% growth in 3Q16 -- according to advance estimates -- from 2.0% in 2Q16, says Maybank Kim Eng lead anal

SINGAPORE (Oct 27): Singapore’s industrial production (IP), which grew by 6.7% y-o-y in Sept, suggests an upward revision to the final 3Q16 GDP from the earlier advance estimate of 0.6% on year, says Maybank Kim Eng.

SINGAPORE (Sept 27): Singapore’s industrial production (IP) rose 0.1% on the back of higher output from electronics, precision engineering and chemical production, but IP dropped 1.3% in July-Aug from last year, this suggests downward pressure on gross

SINGAPORE (July 5): Singapore's manufacturing activity contracted for the 12th straight month in June, according to the latest data released by the Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management (SIPMM) on Monday evening.

SINGAPORE (July 4): Asia’s newest headline manufacturing PMI readings from Markit, CEIC and HSBC’s combined study may reflect low inventories for some countries of late – but this does not mean that new orders nor output growth are picking up, says