SINGAPORE: Singapore’s trade driven economy contracted in the last three months of 2011, signalling it may slip into a technical recession as a slump in manufacturing output and slowdown in external demand hurt exports.
The contraction, however, was unlikely to bring about a change in monetary policy which leaned towards a gradual and modest appreciation of the Singapore dollar, most economists said.
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