SINGAPORE: Singapore's September non-oil domestic exports (NODX) rose 5.9 per cent from a year earlier, driven mainly by electronics shipments, official data showed on Friday (Oct 16), but were slower than forecasts.
That compared with a 7.7 per cent increase in August, and lower than the 10.8 per cent rise forecast by economists in a Reuters poll.
Advertisement Advertisement Exports of electronics jumped 21.4 per cent from a low base a year ago.
On a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, exports contracted 11.3 per cent in September after a 10.5 per cent rise in the previous month, Enterprise Singapore said in a statement. The pace of drop was the steepest since March 2019.
Economists had forecast a 3 per cent shrinkage.
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