For 2024, core inflation averaged 2.7%, pulling back sharply from the 4.2% rate seen in 2023. The headline measure came in at 2.4% versus 4.8% in 2023, suggesting that policymakers' efforts to tame ...
We read through the 163-page Singapore Household Expenditure Survey to pick out some interesting stats and figures we learned ...
Expenses in healthcare and food went up significantly. Singapore's consumer prices increased by 1.6% in December 2024, totalling 2.4% for 2024, with rising costs in food, healthcare, and housing ...
Higher prices for food, hospital and outpatient services and bus and train fares drove up costs for the bottom 20 per cent of ...
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s inflation expectations for the year ahead held steady in December, with residents predicting a rate of ...
Singapore's consumer price inflation held steady at the end of the year, data published by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and ...
Expectations in components of CPI that increased include areas like housing & utilities and miscellaneous goods & services, a sign of changes in lifestyle after the pandemic.
While the central bank of Singapore does not have a fixed target for inflation, it perceives a core inflation rate slightly below 2% as being in line with overall price stability in the economy.
Singapore core inflation measured by the consumer price index CPI eased to 18 percent year-on-year in December down slightly from 19 percent in ...
Singapore’s central bank has eased monetary policy for the first time in four years amid rising expectations of trade turmoil after Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency and moderating domestic ...
The Singapore stock market has ticked lower in three straight sessions, slipping more than 30 points or 0.7percent along the way. The ...
Singapore’s central bank has eased monetary ... data released on Thursday showed the city-state’s core consumer price index rose 1.8 per cent in December from a year earlier, the second ...