{"id":23315,"date":"2011-08-19T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?guid=921f35297916d5b4afa151e3758ab871"},"modified":"2011-08-19T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T20:37:00","slug":"monetary-authority-of-singapore-confirms-policy-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/08\/19\/monetary-authority-of-singapore-confirms-policy-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"Monetary Authority of Singapore Confirms Policy Stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mas.gov.sg\/\" style=\"color: #3778cd; text-decoration: none;\">Monetary Authority of Singapore<\/a>&nbsp;confirmed its monetary policy stance and position in regards to recent market movements in the SOR. &nbsp;The MAS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mas.gov.sg\/news_room\/press_releases\/2011\/Comments_by_the_MAS_Spokesperso_on_Recent_Market_Movements_in_the_SOR.html\">noted<\/a>: &#8220;In response to media queries on recent market movements in the SGD Swap Offer Rate (SOR), the MAS spokesperson reiterated that interest rates in Singapore are market-determined and that the current monetary policy stance, announced in April 2011, remains appropriate.&#8221; &nbsp;The MAS also noted: &#8220;Singapore&#8217;s domestic money markets continue to function in an orderly manner and MAS has had no need to undertake any extraordinary measures. &nbsp;The monetary policy stance remains as that announced in the April 2011 Monetary Policy Statement (MPS), which was reaffirmed at the MAS Annual Report Press Conference on 21 July 2011.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><\/span><br \/><a name='more'><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">The Monetary Authority of Singapore moved to tighten monetary policy settings at its previous biannual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2011\/04\/singapore-monetary-authority-tightens.html\">monetary policy meeting<\/a> in April, when it said it would&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">&#8220;re-centre the exchange rate policy band upwards&#8221;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">. &nbsp;The MAS noted&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">The next MPS will be released as scheduled in mid-October 2011&#8243;. &nbsp;The Singaporean economy contracted -6.5% q\/q in the June quarter (27.2% in the March quarter), bringing year on year GDP growth to 0.9% (9.3% in March). &nbsp;The Ministry of Trade and Industry &nbsp;said Singapore&#8217;s economy is expected to grow by 5-6% in 2011.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\" style=\"color: #3778cd; text-decoration: none;\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-8324246245684144175?l=www.centralbanknews.info' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Monetary Authority of Singapore&nbsp;confirmed its monetary policy stance and position in regards to recent market movements in the SOR. &nbsp;The MAS noted: &#8220;In response to media queries on recent market movements in the SGD Swap Offer Rate (&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}