{"id":293138,"date":"2026-02-11T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293138\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:05:08","slug":"upgraded-growth-outlook-on-ai-momentum-uob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293138\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgraded growth outlook on AI momentum \u2013 UOB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UOB Global Economics &amp; Markets Research reports that Singapore\u2019s 4Q25 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/economic-calendar\" data-fxs-autoanchor=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GDP<\/a> was revised significantly higher, driven by stronger manufacturing, services and construction. This lifted full\u2011year 2025 growth and prompted the authorities to raise the official 2026 forecast range. The bank attributes the improved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/rates-charts\/forecast\" data-fxs-autoanchor=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outlook<\/a> to sustained AI\u2011related momentum and notes the government\u2019s more optimistic medium\u2011term growth assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>Revisions support stronger 2026 growth profile<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Singapore&#8217;s 4Q25 GDP growth was revised meaningfully higher to 6.9% y\/y and 2.1% q\/q sa, from 5.7% y\/y and 1.9% q\/q sa in the advance estimates, driven by the widely anticipated upward revision to manufacturing, alongside stronger services and construction activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consequently, full year 2025 growth was nudged higher to 5.0% from the earlier estimate of 4.8%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MTI (Ministry of Trade and Industry) also upgraded its official 2026 growth forecast range to \u201c2.0 to 4.0 per cent,\u201d from \u201c1.0 to 3.0 per cent\u201d previously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UOB Global Economics &amp; Markets Research reports that Singapore\u2019s 4Q25 GDP was revised significantly higher, driven by stronger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-293138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}