Singapore november exports unexpectedly jump as shipments to china, eu surge

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A container vessel docks at the Tanjong Pagar Terminal in Singapore. Suhaimi Abdullah | Getty Images Singapore's exports unexpectedly jumped in November from a year earlier, helped by


an rise in shipments to the European Union and China, official data showed on Friday. Non-oil domestic exports (NODX) last month rose 11.5 percent from a year earlier, the trade agency


International Singapore (IE Singapore) said in a statement. The median forecast in a Reuters poll was for a contraction of 3.0 percent. On a month-on-month, seasonally adjusted basis,


non-oil domestic exports soared 13.1 percent in November, IE Singapore said, well ahead of the median forecast of 0.5 percent growth. Follow CNBC International on Twitter and Facebook.