Country Report Singapore March 2011

Data and charts: Monthly data

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Exchange rate S$:US$ (av)
2009	1.488	1.518	1.530	1.505	1.462	1.452	1.450	1.442	1.424	1.398	1.389	1.396
2010	1.396	1.412	1.400	1.382	1.393	1.398	1.378	1.356	1.336	1.305	1.298	1.307
2011	1.288	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Exchange rate S$:US$ (end-period)
2009	1.508	1.541	1.519	1.479	1.451	1.450	1.441	1.442	1.414	1.397	1.383	1.403
2010	1.405	1.409	1.403	1.368	1.402	1.401	1.362	1.356	1.318	1.299	1.319	1.288
2011	1.287	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Real effective exchange rate (CPI basis; 2000=100)
2009	108.87	108.63	108.08	106.92	107.92	107.92	107.78	107.50	107.52	108.05	108.00	107.71
2010	108.09	108.14	108.93	110.59	112.08	112.14	112.23	112.91	113.76	113.52	114.47	n/a
2011	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Money supply M1 (% change, year on year)
2009	22.7	18.8	23.7	18.2	18.1	18.8	20.4	21.4	20.6	22.1	25.4	23.5
2010	14.2	17.5	13.9	17.2	19.9	18.1	17.0	18.2	17.1	17.9	20.0	20.3
2011	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Money supply M2 (% change, year on year)
2009	12.8	11.2	11.5	9.7	11.3	12.9	11.9	12.6	11.3	9.2	10.1	11.3
2010	10.8	9.8	8.8	9.0	9.0	7.3	7.5	8.2	8.2	10.0	9.9	8.6
2011	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Manufacturing production (% change, year on year)
2009	-25.7	-11.5	-32.2	0.8	4.9	-6.6	18.0	12.5	-6.4	2.6	-9.6	15.3
2010	41.0	19.5	52.4	49.2	58.6	28.4	9.2	6.8	26.1	29.6	40.5	9.0
2011	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Deposit rate (av; %)
2009	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
2010	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
2011	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Lending rate (av; %)
2009	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4
2010	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4
2011	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Singapore Straits Times Index (end-period; Aug 31st 1989=1,356)
2009	1,746	1,595	1,700	1,920	2,329	2,333	2,659	2,593	2,673	2,651	2,732	2,898
2010	2,745	2,751	2,887	2,975	2,753	2,836	2,988	2,950	3,098	3,143	3,145	3,190
2011	3,180	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Consumer prices (av; % change, year on year)
2009	4.3	3.3	2.6	0.3	0.2	0.0	-0.3	-0.3	-0.5	-0.9	-0.8	-0.5
2010	0.2	1.0	1.6	3.2	3.2	2.7	3.1	3.3	3.7	3.5	3.8	4.6
2011	5.5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Wholesale prices (av; % change, year on year)
2009	-17.8	-17.2	-18.1	-18.0	-20.7	-20.2	-22.2	-17.3	-15.6	-6.9	6.0	12.4
2010	12.6	11.4	11.6	11.6	7.9	1.8	1.4	-1.6	-0.2	0.4	-0.2	2.7
2011	3.2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Total exports fob (S$ bn)
2009	26.4	27.6	31.7	31.2	30.0	32.0	35.0	34.0	35.1	35.6	35.6	37.0
2010	36.2	32.9	40.9	40.5	38.6	41.0	40.8	42.7	41.5	42.6	39.7	41.5
2011	42.5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Total imports cif (S$ bn)
2009	25.6	26.4	27.6	27.6	27.6	29.6	31.4	30.0	33.1	32.3	31.3	33.7
2010	33.0	30.7	36.1	36.5	33.3	37.5	38.2	35.8	35.4	35.5	35.6	35.6
2011	36.4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Trade balance fob-cif (S$ bn)
2009	0.8	1.2	4.1	3.5	2.4	2.3	3.7	4.0	2.0	3.3	4.3	3.2
2010	3.1	2.1	4.7	4.1	5.3	3.5	2.7	6.9	6.1	7.0	4.1	5.9
2011	6.1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Foreign-exchange reserves excl gold (US$ bn)
2009	166.6	163.0	165.7	169.5	171.2	172.6	173.5	174.6	180.2	182.5	187.1	186.0
2010	187.8	186.1	195.4	201.7	196.7	198.3	205.2	204.7	212.9	219.6	215.7	223.9
2011	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Sources: IMF, International Financial Statistics; Haver Analytics; Department of Statistics.

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