Singapore: Macro Resilience in a Higher Risk Global Environment The advance 1Q26 GDP report indicates that Singapore’s economy has remained resilient on a YoY basis, while overall sequential momentum has softened amid rising imported cost pressures. March PMI data pointed to businesses placing greater emphasis on margin protection, inventory management, and supply resilience, as input and output prices continue to rise and stockbuilding accelerates. Taken together, these developments are consistent with an operating environment increasingly shaped by external cost and geopolitical risks rather than a sharp deterioration in domestic demand. The MAS MPS on April 14 also made a slight increase in the rate of appreciation of the S$NEER policy band. This allows the Singapore dollar to appreciat