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Week 23 — Retail's holding up, but the van out front just got more expensive than the business inside
April retail sales held up at +5.4%, commercial-vehicle COE is set to breach S$100,000, and roughly a third of Singapore's exports could face a new 12.5% US tariff. MOM's wage report confirms real wages grew in 2025.
How each sector read in recent editions, at a glance. Tap a week to open that edition.
All Editions
- 2026 · W23 Retail's holding up, but the van out front just got more expensive than the business inside Weekly
- 2026 · W20 The Middle East war shows up on the local P&L, H&M packs for Malaysia, and 18,000 HDB flats join the queue Recovery
- 2026 · W18 MOM publishes Singapore's first AI-adoption-among-firms study, and May Day delivered the long weekend Catch-up
- 2026 · W17 A quiet week, an interesting MOM study, and a long weekend coming Dry Run
A few weeks went unpublished earlier this run — W19 (scrape-pipeline outage, May) and W21–W22 (the Sunday draft step failed to fire). Those gaps have been fixed at the pipeline level and W22 was deliberately skipped rather than back-dated. Regular Monday cadence resumes with W23. Subscribe via the form below.
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