Survey: More than half of local residents surveyed expect inflation to fall in 2026

Affected by weak global economic growth and trade policy uncertainty, Singapore residents have become cautiously optimistic about the inflation trend in 2026. DBS Group and SMU’s Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics (SKBI) jointly released the latest Singapore Index of Inflation Expectations (SInDEx) on 22 July 2025, showing that Singapore residents' expectations for overall inflation in 2026 have fallen from 3.8% in March 2025 to 3.5% in June 2025, reaching the lowest level since the survey in December 2021.