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WHAT if at the start of 2021, you were given a choice between picking an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks all the main Bursa Malaysia Index series, which index would you choose?

THE recently ended third quarter (Q3) earnings season has now provided investors a glimpse of what is to come in 2022 as the relatively respectable quarterly results has now been overshadowed by a barrage of downgrades in earnings forecast for next year, mainly due to the one-off effect from Cukai Makmur or Prosperity Tax, which was announced in Budget 2022.

BASED on the statistics provided by Bursa Malaysia, year-to-date, the biggest buyers on the local bourse in the form of market participants are the retail investors with a total net inflow of approximately RM11.7bil as at Nov 24, 2021.

LAST week, one major Dow Jones Industrial Average constituent and another former big name of the 30-stock index announced plans to split their companies in a move to create value for their respective business units

THE Securities Commission (SC), in a statement last week, reprimanded China Automobile Parts Holdings Ltd (CAP), its current and former directors, and chief financial officers for various breaches of the securities laws.

LAST week, this column highlighted Malaysia’s debt dependency and how the government should formulate a strategy to raise its tax revenue to reach 15% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2025.

HOT on the heels of tabling the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP), the next agenda is the presentation of the Budget 2022 in just under three weeks.

THE FBM KLCI was introduced in 2006 in collaboration between FTSE and Bursa Malaysia as the new benchmark index for the Malaysian stock market that constitutes the top 30 market capitalised stocks and free-float adjusted.

Why is rate of inflation accelerating? For example, just looking at the Brent crude oil price and retail pump prices in the second quarter of of 2020 and this year, prices of Brent crude have almost doubled while RON95 presently retails at RM2.05 per litre, although capped, is almost 50% higher than a year ago. THE Malaysia Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of March was a surprise as the headline 1.7% reading was ahead of market forecast of 1.6% jump. As we are now into the 2Q period, it...

Three key elements that can dictate the local market’s direction this year. - Economy, election, earnings. LAST week, this column highlighted five key elements that will dictate global markets and of course these global economic factors, which are universal, will also have an impact on the local economy in general and more specifically, the financial markets. Index wise, the FBM KLCI, which closed the year 2020 at 1,627.21 pts or up 2.4%, the first annual rise of the benchmark index in since ...