Economics

Singapore Cuts Growth Outlook as Trade War Ripples Across Region

  • City-state’s struggles may be early sign of regional slowdown
  • Central bank says unlikely to call off-cycle policy meeting
Singapore Cuts Growth Outlook to Near Zero
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Singapore’s government cut its forecast for economic growth this year to almost zero as the escalating U.S-China trade war dampens the region’s most trade-reliant economies.