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25-11-2016, 04:03 PM
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Malaysia is an enigma where word and actions are diverting. EPF can pay 6.4% interest while KLCI yield is 3%. US$100b reserve yet allow IMDB to default and the first to scare the market 2 weeks ago on offshore MYR convertibility as well as non repatriation of sales. Seems like EPF is big beneficiary of weaker MYR
http://www.pionline.com/article/20160503...nt-program
Yet Malaysia is expanding 4.1% in 2016, probably top quartile performing emerging markets. When I visit Malaysia I feel that Malaysia is inflationary. even though the official numbers say less than 2%. I actually think it is stagflationary.
MYR is no longer a large weight in SGD basket I presume, and I sense CNY has probably the biggest non-USD influence. We have moved from 1:1 MYR 50 years ago to 1:3 now, and I do not sense Malaysia economic growth nor inflation / interest rate policies affecting us as much as say 25 years ago. If Malaysia is really going 4% growth <2% inflation with 3.5% unemployment rate (Economist's dream of NAIRU) then I reckon SGDMYR will go 2.50 next few years or so. Obviously I am skeptical.
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Malaysia's Growth Quickens to Two-Year High, Beating Forecasts
by Pooi Koon Chong and En Han Choong
Malaysia’s economy grew at the fastest pace in two years last quarter, lifted by an export recovery and stronger private consumption and investment.
Key Points
* Gross domestic product rose 5.6 percent from a year earlier, Bank Negara Malaysia said in a statement Friday. Growth was 4.5 percent in the fourth quarter
* The median estimate of 22 economists surveyed by Bloomberg was 4.8 percent
* Compared with the previous quarter, GDP rose 1.8 percent versus the 1.2 percent economists had forecast
Big Picture
Malaysia’s economy is picking up speed, driven by household spending and a recovery in exports that’s helped by higher oil prices. The central bank forecast growth of as much as 4.8 percent this year from 4.2 percent in 2016.
Bank Negara Malaysia last week kept interest rates unchanged and said the growth momentum will be sustained this year. While there are risks including rapid credit growth among households and companies and rising prices, the ringgit has rebounded and foreigners are returning to the bond market.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...-forecasts
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(Bloomberg) -- Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad asked its oil-producing states to consider owning stakes in Petroliam Nasional Bhd., after saying the government can’t afford to increase royalty payments as promised.
Mahathir held a 90-minute meeting with the states’ leaders on Monday and asked them to explore the idea of having Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak own stakes in Petronas, according to a statement from Sarawak’s chief minister’s office. Sarawak will study the proposal in depth, it said in the note.
The statement doesn’t specify how the states would get the stakes in Petronas.
Malaysia is seeking ways to meet an election pledge to raise oil royalties paid to the eastern states to 20%, from 5%, at a time when it’s struggling with a debt burden worsened by the 1MDB scandal. This year alone, the government received 54 billion ringgit ($13 billion) in dividends from Petronas, helping it meet its budget deficit target and revive projects to spur growth.
Mahathir said the government is considering selling the stakes to states where Petronas’s oil and gas fields are located, as it can’t meet the demand from Sabah and Sarawak to increase royalty payments, Reuters reported last week.
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