Singaporeans do not expect overall consumer prices to budge much in the next 12 months, but think that core inflation - which excludes housing and private transport costs - could still inch up.
People here figured that inflation would hit 2.85 per cent in the year ahead, the quarterly DBS-SMU Singapore Index of Inflation Expectations poll found last month. This was the third straight quarterly drop and a dip from the 2.88 per cent pinged by the previous survey three months prior.
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