Singapore Retail Sales Post Smallest Decline in Eight Months

Bloomberg.com, 15 Oct 2009
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore’s retail sales dropped the least in eight months in August as the city state’s economic recovery spurred an improvement in spending at supermarkets and department stores.
The retail sales index dropped 5.2 percent from a year earlier after sliding 9.8 percent in July, the Statistics Department said today. The median estimate of six economists surveyed by Bloomberg News was for an 8.9 percent decline.
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