The worry is that the whipsaw moves by the Trump Administration will either hurt the US economy directly or create enough uncertainty to drive US companies and consumers into an economy-freezing paralysis. The S&P 500 was down 9.1 per cent from its all-time high set on February 19.
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The US federal government reduced its payrolls by 10,000 in a potential harbinger of the alarm being sounded by the stock market, consumer confidence and other measures of where the economy is headed. Since January, the economic policy uncertainty index has spiked 41 per cent to a level, 334.5, that in the past signalled a recession.
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PM Wong cited some Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures between 2022 and 2024. He illustrated that even as GST was increased by 1 percentage point each in January 2023 and January 2024, the CPI inflation in Singapore went down from 6.1 per cent in 2022 to 4.8 per cent in 2023 and 2.4 per cent in 2024.
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The overall list for trust of the general population in the government, businesses, media and NGOs was again topped by China, while Indonesia replaced India for the second spot by virtue of an increased score despite the Indian score remaining unchanged.
