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1 week ago | 
thestar.com.my | Pankaj C. Kumar
GLOBAL interest rates peaked sometime in the second half of financial year 2024 (2H24), and with key inflation indicators beginning to trend lower, central banks have turned dovish by lowering their benchmark interest rates. Over the past year, other than Malaysia and Vietnam, most central banks have cut rates, with the Bank of Canada and Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) being the most aggressive – each lowering key rates by as much as 225 basis points (bps). Already a subscriber? Log in.
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3 weeks ago | 
thestar.com.my | Pankaj C. Kumar
THE question of whether Hong Kong (HK) should de-peg its currency against the US dollar (USD) has been a subject of debate for a long time. The recent dollar weakness and intervention by the HK Monetary Authority (HKMA) to maintain the peg suggest that it is time for HK to de-peg. The HK$7.80 peg and within a tight band of between 7.75 and 7.85 to the dollar was established in 1983 under a linked exchange rate system.
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1 month ago | 
thestar.com.my | Pankaj C. Kumar
THE US Federal Reserve (Fed), especially its chair Jerome Powell, has come under increasing pressure from US President Donald Trump to cut the benchmark Fed Fund Rate (FFR). While Powell has categorically expressed that he will stay on until his term expires in May next year, the president is just fed up with Powell due to his lack of action in cutting the FFR and has called Powell all sorts of names. Already a subscriber? Log in.
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1 month ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Surbhi Dahiya |Pankaj C. Kumar |Vimal Chandra Srivastava |Vimal Kumar
Supporting Information Filename Description cjce25709-sup-0001-Supinfo.docxWord 2007 document , 1.4 MB Data S1. Supplementary Information. REFERENCES 1, , , , , , , , Catal. Today 2018, 316, 2. 2, , Acc. Chem. Res. 2002, 35, 706. 3, , , Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57, 14977. 4, , , , J. Catal. 2000, 192, 355. 5, , Appl. Catal. A. 1996, 142, L1. 6, , , , , J. Org. Chem. 1998, 63, 7095. 7, , , Appl. Catal. A. 2001, 221, 241. 8, , , Appl. Catal. A 2007, 316, 1. 9, , , , , Catal.
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1 month ago | 
thestar.com.my | Pankaj C. Kumar
NOT many would have thought that 2025 would be a turbulent year for financial markets, despite early warning signs from Donald Trump’s campaign for the US presidency back in November 2024.
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1 month ago | 
thestar.com.my | Pankaj C. Kumar
BY now, the Google search engine must be overwhelmed with searches for the words “tariff” and “Trump”, as the world has been bombarded with endless news related to both, while markets turned topsy-turvy.
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2 months ago | 
thestar.com.my | Pankaj C. Kumar
IN its meeting last week, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) left key benchmark interest rates unchanged, but the revised economic growth outlook, inflation forecast and Federal Reserve (Fed) dot plot should make investors rethink their investment strategy. As it stands, the question of whether the United States is headed for recession is gaining traction. More importantly, given President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda, inflation expectations remain elevated and could head further north.
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2 months ago | 
thestar.com.my | Pankaj C. Kumar
THE National Property Information Centre (Napic) recently released the 2024 property market update which showed that while overhang has dropped considerably, there has been some uptick in terms of construction activities. Starts and new planned supply for the residential sector rose by 20.6% and 24.1% year-on-year (y-o-y) to 106,236 units and 100,461 units respectively. At the same time, the number of residential unsold units that are under construction increased by 19.2% y-o-y to 60,934 units.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
thestar.com.my | Pankaj C. Kumar
BASED on the latest data released by the US Census Bureau and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, the United States recorded total exports of US$2.08 trillion and imported some US$3.3 trillion worth of goods last year, resulting in a trade deficit of US$1.21 trillion. Compared with a year ago, total exports rose by 1.9% but imports surged by 6%, which resulted in the trade deficit rising by 14% year-on-year. Already a subscriber? Log in.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
thestar.com.my | Pankaj C. Kumar
THE Rules on Takeovers, Mergers and Compulsory Acquisitions (Rules) are issued by the Securities Commission (SC) pursuant to Section 377 of the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007 (CMSA). These Rules must be read together with the Malaysian Code on Take-Overs and Mergers 2016 (Code) and the ruling issued by the SC pursuant to Section 217 of the CMSA. Already a subscriber? Log in. Get 30% off with our ads free Premium Plan! Billed as RM9.73 for the 1st month then RM13.90 thereafters.
