Data from Singapore’s trade ministry released a little while ago:

Singapore Q4 GDP +1.6% q/q (annualised)

  • +3.0% expected (Bloomberg survey)
  • +3.2% prior

For the y/y, +1.5%

  • expected was +1.8%
  • Prior was 2.8%

More via Bloomberg:

  • Singapore’s manufacturing fell 5.8 percent last quarter from the previous three months
  • Services industry grew 3.8 percent in the same period, while construction expanded 8 percent
  • Today’s data are advance estimates computed largely from figures in the first two months of the quarter and may be revised later