Singaporeans' inflation expectations remain at record 5-year lows: SInDEx

Singaporeans’ One-year-Ahead median inflation expectations stayed unchanged at 2.63%, its lowest level since September 2011, according to the research findings of the latest quarterly survey for Singapore Index of Inflation Expectations (SInDEx) by Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics (SKBI) at SMU. For the longer horizon, the Five-year-Ahead median headline (CPI-All Items) inflation expectations in the September 2016 survey moderated down to 3.43% (from 3.48% in June 2016), once again at its lowest level since the survey’s inception in September 2011.