Chart of the Day: Jump in 2015 visitor arrivals to resurrect Singapore's lacklustre retail sector

As both markets recover from this year’s one-off events.

Retail sales have been flat through 2014, and analysts from Macquarie Research say it will experience a 3% growth in the next year as visitor arrivals increase by 9%.

2014 visitor arrivals were negatively impacted by one-off events (MH 370; China package tour crackdown; ASEAN regional elections).

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