{"id":105047,"date":"2021-01-18T01:51:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T01:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myfintale.com\/?p=105047"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:51:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T01:51:58","slug":"singapore-non-oil-exports-surge-6-8-in-december-to-snap-two-month-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfintale.com\/economy\/singapore-non-oil-exports-surge-6-8-in-december-to-snap-two-month-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore non-oil exports surge 6.8% in December to snap two-month decline"},"content":{"rendered":"
SINGAPORE – Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports (Nodx) posted its first gain in three months in December, mainly helped by shipment of non-electronic goods such as specialised machinery, non-monetary gold and measuring instruments.<\/p>\n
Nodx surged last month by 6.8 per cent year on year after a revised 5 per cent drop in November and a 3.1 per cent decrease in October, Enterprise Singapore (ESG) said on Monday (Jan 18). Before October, Singapore saw four consecutive months of Nodx growth.<\/p>\n
Economists in a Bloomberg survey had forecast a 1.1 per cent year on year decline in December Nodx.<\/p>\n
On a month-on-month seasonally adjusted basis, Nodx rose by 6.6 per cent in December, extending the previous month’s 3.7 per cent increase – again higher than the 3.5 per cent rise forecast in the Bloomberg poll.<\/p>\n
Electronics grew\u00a013.7 per cent, but mainly due to a low year-ago base. ESG said electronic Nodx gains last month were mostly due to a 16 per cent surge in integrated circuits shipments which had contracted by 25 per cent in December 2019 amid the global electronics downcycle.<\/p>\n
Parts of personal computers, diodes and transistors expanded by 15.7 per cent, 33.8 per cent and 16.5 per cent respectively.<\/p>\n
Non-electronic Nodx rose by 5 per cent last month, after a 5.3 per cent decline in the previous month. The gains were led by specialised machinery (+30.9 per cent), non-monetary gold (+14.5 per cent) and measuring instruments (+21.4 per cent).<\/p>\n
The bulk of the specialised machinery shipments went to South Korea, in line with robust global semiconductor demand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meanwhile non-monetary gold exports were helped by the spike in the preious metal\u2019s international price that rose above US$1,900 per ounce last month amid reports of stimulus measures in the US. A new wave of lockdowns in the United Kingdom also provided support for the safe haven asset\u2019s demand.<\/p>\n
Nodx to the top markets as a whole grew in December. Still, exports to China, the EU 27, Indonesia and Japan declined. The largest contributors to the Nodx increase last month were the US (+52.5 per cent), South Korea (+46.2 per cent) and Taiwan (+14.8 per cent).<\/p>\n
Total trade declined 0.3 per cent in December from the same month of 2019, extending a 7.3 percent drop in November and a 7.7 per cent slide in October.<\/p>\n
Total exports grew by 2.6 per cent after the previous month\u2019s 5.4 per cent decline. Total imports decreased by 3.4 per cent following the 9.4 per cent drop in November.<\/p>\n
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