Singapore's manufacturing output rose by 4.3 percent year on year in October (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Singapore Economic Development Board announced on November26 that the city-state's manufacturing output rose by 4.3 percent year on yearin October, compared to the revised 0.1 percent decrease in September.
Excludingbiomedical manufacturing, Singapore's manufacturing output grew 3 percent yearon year in October, compared to a 2 percent growth rate in September.
In the firstten months of 2018, Singapore's manufacturing output grew 7.5 percent year onyear. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, it grew 7.9 percent year on year.
On aseasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, Singapore's manufacturing outputhiked 2 percent in October. Excluding bio-medical manufacturing, output grew3.9 percent.
On ayear-on-year basis, the electronics cluster's output fell by 2.7 percent inOctober, the chemicals cluster's output declined by 1 percent, the transportengineering cluster's output jumped by 30.8 percent, the bio-medicalmanufacturing cluster's output hiked 11.5 percent, the precision engineeringcluster's output grew 1.4 percent, and the general manufacturing industries sawtheir outputs up by 1.3 percent.-VNA
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