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Posted Date: June 23, 2022 Foreign flows into the local bond market returned to positive territory in May amid foreign investors’ flight-to-safety demand and Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) hawkish pivot. Nevertheless, the magnitude was only a meagre RM531 million, which did not completely offset the relative net foreign outflows of RM2.2 billion in April. Total

Posted Date: May 26, 2022 April saw the local bond market record net foreign outflow for the second consecutive month, albeit at a smaller magnitude of RM2.2 billion compared with RM4.0 billion in the previous month amid the global bond rout as the market braced for aggressive interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve

Posted Date: April 22, 2022 After recording net foreign inflows in the first two months of 2022, the local bond market experienced massive net foreign outflows of RM4.0 billion in March (Feb: +RM3.1 billion) amid a hawkish chorus by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) in quelling red-hot inflation. The local government bond market suffered sell-offs

Posted Date: April 7, 2022 Our view on the outlook of the Malaysian economy is generally consistent with those presented by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) in its Economic and Monetary Review 2021. BNM anticipates a stronger recovery in 2022, with real GDP growth ranging between 5.3% – 6.3% (versus MARC Ratings’ forecast of 5.7%). While

Posted Date: April 1, 2022 The MARC360: Sustainable Development Financing 2022 Virtual Conference continued with Day 2 yesterday and began with a discourse on current sustainable energy innovations and global trends. The first session, titled “Sustainable Energy Innovations in the Age of Climate Change”, explored the global transition towards new energy in the efforts to

Posted Date: March 31, 2022 The third iteration of the MARC360 conference series, titled “Sustainable Development Financing 2022” commenced yesterday morning and is being held over two half-days on March 30-31, 2022. The virtual conference was officiated by the Minister of Finance Malaysia, YB Senator Tengku Datuk Seri Utama Zafrul Bin Tengku Abdul Aziz. On

Posted Date: March 24, 2022 The local bond market continued to record net foreign inflow for the third consecutive month, albeit at a declining magnitude in February. The ongoing military conflict between Ukraine and Russia raised the safety demand for bonds as haven assets. Foreign investors remained as net buyers although total net foreign inflow

Posted Date: March 24, 2022 MARC Ratings today published its 2021 Annual Corporate Default and Ratings Transition Study which tracks the history of corporate ratings assigned by the rating agency since its inception in 1996 through to December 31, 2021. This is MARC Ratings’ 17th Annual Corporate Default and Ratings Transition Study. In 2021, MARC