If recent weaker-than-expected economic data from Singapore is anything to go by, the city-state is heading for a quarterly growth contraction, economists say.
A negative quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) reading for the third quarter should not be a surprise given an unusually firm annualized quarter-on-quarter rise of 15.5 percent in the second quarter, but the scale of the contraction is something to watch for, they add. The latest GDP data is expected later this month.