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Singapore’s 2022 GDP growth beats amid lurking headwinds

  Bloomberg Singapore’s recovery held up in 2022, with a relatively strong year-end performance shoring up the economy ahead of an expected global slowdown this year. Gross domestic product grew 3.8% during the year, according to advance estimates from the Ministry of Trade and Industry. That’s a slight beat from the government’s projection for a 3.5% annual expansion. The better-than-forecast ...

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Hyundai misses full-year sales target

  Bloomberg Hyundai Motor Co sold 3.94 million vehicles last year, short of its 4.01 million target as the pandemic, supply disruptions, inflation and concerns of recession continued to strain the industry. Hyundai, which already cut its 2022 forecast from 4.32 million vehicles in October, expects global sales to reach 4.32 million units in 2023 — 3.54 million overseas and ...

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China’s economy ends 2022 in slump as Covid infections surge

  Bloomberg China’s economy ended the year in a major slump as business and consumer spending plunged in December, with more disruption likely in the first few months of the year as Covid infections surge across the country. Official data showed the decline in manufacturing worsened last month, while activity in the services sector plunged the most since February 2020. ...

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