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U.S. equities finished last week on a softer note, with investors increasingly rotating away from crowded risk and re-pricing both AI winners/losers and the rate path. For the week ending Feb. 27, the S&P 500 fell 0.4%, the Dow lost 1.3%, and the Nasdaq slipped 1.0%, while Friday’s session saw another broad decline as inflation worries and geopol...

(Kuala Lumpur, 2nd News) The escalation of the Middle East conflict has triggered global risk aversion. However, market insiders believe that Malaysia's stock market, with its stable performance, predictable policy environment, and solid economic fundamentals, may turn adversity into advantage, becoming a short-term capital safe haven.
Across the Asia-Pacific region, stock markets generally fell in early trading today. Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea's stock markets all dropped by more than 1%. Singapore's stock market suffered the heaviest losses, leading the region with a 1.77% decline.
The FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI opened at 1688.64 points on the first trading day of March, but soon fell to 1684.28 points. The decline widened to 1.88%, or 32.33 points.
However, Malaysia's stock market gradually narrowed its losses and hovered near the psychological threshold of 1700 points. As of 12:30 PM, it was down 17.59 points, or 1.0%, from last Friday's 1716.61 points, temporarily reported at 1699.02 points.
Malaysia Stocks May Become a Safe Haven
Guo Junyong, research analyst at iFAST, told Nanyang Siang Pau in a telephone interview that although Malaysia's stock market experienced significant volatility in early trading, some declines have started to narrow as the market digests developments in the conflict and last week’s corporate earnings reports.
“From an economic fundamental perspective, Malaysia is not showing obvious signs of recession. Policy predictability is strong, and steady domestic demand also makes Malaysia's stock market possess certain safe-haven attributes.”
Guo Junyong cited the neighboring Indonesian stock market as an example, pointing out that in late January, the MSCI raised questions about the investability of the Indonesian stock market, leading to a rapid cooling of local investment enthusiasm.
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