Trend Watch 2017: Singapore seeks retail revival, economic resilience
Global uncertainty is casting a looming shadow on the world and Singapore, a small island easily buffeted by global economic currents, is preparing itself for a challenging year ahead.
Economists foretell 2017 to be a year of consolidation in Singapore: things are not projected to get worse, but are not expected to pick up either. With a downside coming from new US policies and moves towards economic protectionism, as well as on-going slow-down in China, 2017 will be one of "wider uncertainty". Singapore's central bank noted...