cover image: Monthly News September 2020, Vol. 25 Issue 9

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Monthly News September 2020, Vol. 25 Issue 9

18 Jan 2021

The central bank said the September, Berita harian) Govt to continue helping SMEs BSA reflected the continued bilateral navigate recovery path in Budget Malaysia’s consumer sector to financial cooperation between Japan 2021: The government is committed steadily recover: Malaysia’s and Malaysia that would contribute to to continue helping small and medium consumer sector is expected to remain the s. [...] per cent of pre-Covid levels for the automation, building on the This is higher from the bank’s early remainder of the year, taking a leaf foundation laid by the Prihatin Rakyat estimation of a 3.1 per cent from countries that entered the Covid- Economic Stimulus Package contraction, following a sharper than 19 curve earlier. [...] (28 September, The Star) for 2021 at 5.5 per cent), in the lead- institution said the change in the up to the availability of a Covid-19 forecast reflected the heightened Bank Negara’s unchanged OPR vaccine by the first half of 2021 uncertainty surrounding the start and rate signals Malaysia’s economic (1H21), in our view,” it said. [...] The firm, however, on-year (y-o-y) in August 2020 to believes exports would remain in to end the period closer to the 4.15 101.7 compared with 104.6 in the positive territory on a yearly same month last year. [...] Last year, attributed the decrease in the overall sentiment for the ringgit since the the country’s exports and imports index to the decline in the mining central bank’s policy decision, with contracted 0.8 per cent and 3.5 per index (-33.7 per cent y-o-y), cent respectively.
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