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Posted Date: February 5, 2021 The economic recession due to the outbreak of COVID-19 will soon be proven to be the world’s most devastating crisis since the Great Depression. As a small and open economy, Malaysia has not been spared from the brunt of these twin health and economic crises. We forecast that Malaysia will

Posted Date: February 2, 2021 Malaysian Rating Corporation Berhad (MARC) has published its 2020 Lead Managers’ League Tables. Published annually, the league tables rank the lead managers by volume and number of lead-arranged MARC-rated issuances in any given year. MARC’s Lead Managers’ League Tables provide a meaningful measure of domestic bond issuances rated by MARC

Posted Date: January 21, 2021 For the eighth consecutive month, the local bond market continued to see net positive foreign inflows in December. This was despite the Fitch downgrade of Malaysia’s sovereign credit rating against the pandemic backdrop, and a strong indication that investors were buying into November’s dip. With net foreign inflows coming in

Posted Date: January 20, 2021 Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) left the overnight policy rate (OPR) unchanged at a historical low of 1.75% during its first Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting of 2021. This was a prudent pause, in our view, as the resurgence of COVID-19 cases has triggered another round of the movement control order

Posted Date: January 8, 2021 Despite the rapid development and deployment of vaccines in recent weeks, COVID-19 will continue to force economies to balance a difficult trade-off between managing public health and driving economic growth. We anticipate that governments’ response to the resurgence of the virus will likely challenge earlier forecasts for a V-shaped recovery

Posted Date: January 08, 2021 While 2020 had been a year of many challenges, we expect 2021 to shape out into one that is relatively less “unprecedented”. Growth risks in Malaysia should gradually fade with the general availability of the COVID-19 vaccine though recovery at the sectoral level will likely remain choppy. On the aggregate,

Posted Date: December 18, 2020 Malaysian bonds tanked in November, sending yields significantly higher compared to October on return of risk sentiment. Domestic investors cut down on their Malaysian Government Securities (MGS) holdings as the prospect of a quicker economic recovery had heightened, diminishing expectations of future rate cuts. Risk-on sentiment was mainly spurred by

Posted Date: November 25, 2020 This article, which was written by MARC’s Senior Economist Firdaos Rosli, was published in Harian Metro & My Metro on Wednesday, November 25, 2020. Tidak dinafikan kesan penutupan dan sekatan ekonomi disebabkan penularan wabak Covid-19 dirasai secara tidak seimbang oleh semua lapisan masyarakat, lebih-lebih lagi mereka yang berada di bahagian

Posted Date: November 23, 2020 October was vibrant for Malaysian bonds amid robust gross issuance activities, slumping yields, and heightened foreign demand. The increased appetite was mainly driven by calls for further fiscal and monetary support amid the resurgence of COVID-19 cases. This was also supported by the expectation of a gradual economic recovery. We