KUALA LUMPUR: RHB Research Institute says in its latest economic update that it expects private investment to grow at an increased pace of 7.7% year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in 2017, from 4.3% last year, underpinned by ongoing construction of infrastructure projects and a pickup in exports. This comes following an increase in the Malaysian Institute of Economic […]
Read MoreOne of Malaysia’s largest real estate consultancy firms, Rahim & Co International Bhd, unveiled plans to set up shop in Cambodia as part of an Asian expansion strategy, according to a Malaysian media report. The company’s executive chairman, Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman, told the Sun Daily that Rahim & Co is looking at Cambodia, Vietnam, […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Maybank Investment Bank Research has maintained its “sell” rating on 7-Eleven Malaysia Holdings (SEM) with an unchanged target price of RM1.10. The research house said SEM unveiled its “Back to Basics” exercise during its analyst briefing. It said more emphasis would be placed on cost efficiencies moving forward. “With its newly announced ‘Back to Basics’ […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Invest Malaysia 2017 (IM 2017) has attracted about 900 fund managers with total assets under management (AUM) of US$19.9 trillion, a significant increase from US$11 trillion last year. Bursa Malaysia Bhd chairman Tan Sri Amirsham Abdul Aziz said IM 2017 marked the 13th year that the exchange had organised the nation’s premier conference to […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s capital market increased 9% to RM3.1 trillion in the first six months of this year and is now ranked fifth in Asia, relative to the gross domestic product (GDP), Prime Minster Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said. He said Malaysia is also home to the largest number of listed companies in Asean […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: The Government is looking to establish a single regulatory body to regulate the property sector. The Second Finance Minister Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani said that the issue of residential house prices being unaffordable is due to this. “All these happens because there is no one single regulatory body to supervise us. The […]
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