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SINGAPORE, March 17 (Reuters) - Singapore's non-oil
domestic exports (NODX) fell 15.6% in February from the same
month a year earlier, led by falls in both electronic and
non-electronic products and broadly in line with analyst
forecasts.
Last month's decline, however, marked a slowdown from the
25% drop in January and 20.6% fall in December, according to
data from Enterprise Singapore. The drop compared with a
forecast in a Reuters poll of analysts for a 16% fall.
On a month-on-month seasonally adjusted basis, NODX
decreased 8% in February, following January's 0.9% growth. This
was steeper than analysts' predictions for a 0.5% decline.
Non-domestic oil exports to Singapore's top 10 markets
in February declined as a whole.
Exports to European Union countries fell 34.2% on lower
shipments of petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and disk media
products, while exports to Hong Kong declined 46.4% after drops
in shipments of integrated circuits, disk media products and
iron or steel scrap.
(Reporting by Xinghui Kok
Editing by Ed Davies)
