Singapore Q1 GDP up 2.6%

Singapore’s economy grew at a faster than expected pace in the first quarter than earlier thought, data showed on Tuesday.  The city-state’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded an annualized 2.6 percent from the year before, beating the advance estimate of 2.1 percent and better than the 2.2 percent forecast in a Reuters poll.

Quarter on quarter, the economy expanded an annualized 3.2 percent, much stronger than the 1.1 percent advance estimate and topping the 1.8 percent print expected.

The figure was boosted by resilience in the manufacturing and services sectors. Manufacturing activity shrank 2.7 percent from a year earlier, but that was still an upward revision from a 3.4 percent contraction in the advance estimate. Growth in services-producing industries was revised up to 3.8 percent on year from the advance estimate of 3.1 percent.

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