{"id":690759,"date":"2026-07-14T08:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690759\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:05:30","slug":"singapore-beats-forecast-with-5-7-gdp-growth-in-q2-early-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690759\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore beats forecast with 5.7% GDP growth in Q2, early data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Downside risks remain from Middle East conflict despite AI boom<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F4%2F4%2F5%2F9%2F12799544-1-eng-GB%2Fc17af228996a-2026-07-13T103052Z_809171742_RC2E1FARB27I_RTRMADP_3_INDONESIA-RATINGS-S-P.JPG?fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto&amp;width=780\" alt=\"20260713 Singapore bikes\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">People ride bikes near\u00a0the central business district in Singapore. After better-than-expected results in the first half, analysts forecast softer growth for the city-state in the coming quarters. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>KENTARO TAKEDA<\/p>\n<p>July 14, 2026 09:11 JST<\/p>\n<p>Updated on July 14, 2026 11:30 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SINGAPORE &#8212; Singapore&#8217;s economy grew 5.7% in the April-June period compared to a year earlier, preliminary data showed on Tuesday, slowing from a 6.3% expansion in the first quarter as the impact of the Iran war offset gains from the artificial intelligence boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Downside risks remain from Middle East conflict despite AI boom People ride bikes near\u00a0the central business district&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[172837,135043,84,1336,3677,1294,1024,2184,2923,12715,28770,3718,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-172837","tag-beats","tag-business","tag-data","tag-early","tag-economy","tag-forecast","tag-gdp","tag-growth","tag-q2","tag-shows","tag-singapore","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}