A day before the Jackson Hole symposium, the Fed released the minutes of its latest Federal Open Market Committee meeting, which left US interest rates unchanged at 5.25-5.5 per cent. …
Is this all US$60 billion worth of central bank interventions in global foreign exchange markets buys you these days? It is a question that is undoubtedly preying on the minds …
“Just look around you … nobody has sold anything,” he told This Week in Asia. Street food vendors serve a customer in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia’s ringgit has been among Asia …
Amir’s positive growth outlook is based on Malaysia’s inflation rate being the lowest in Asia currently at 1.6 per cent, falling unemployment, a recovery in exports and record-high investments from …
Malaysia’s central bank on Tuesday said it had urged investors, government-owned enterprises and private corporations to help shore up the value of its plunging ringgit, which continues to be battered …
Malaysia’s central bank has defended the trajectory of the country’s economic growth, after the ringgit sunk to its lowest since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, blaming a strengthening US dollar …
The ongoing slide in the ringgit puts it a whisker away from a record low, and continued weakness in Malaysia’s exports as well as dollar strength may just push the …
Carman Lee is back in Ipoh, her hometown in northwestern Malaysia, after a seven-and-half hour bus ride from Singapore for the coming Lunar New Year. The Westin Singapore employee has …
The capital of the Malaysian state of Johor, the city has seen a boom in construction that includes high-rise condominiums within walking distance to the border checkpoint as well as …
The Malaysian ringgit is vulnerable to a drop toward last year’s low as concerns over the fragility of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s government add to the currency’s headwinds. The ringgit’s …