Sep 18, 2008

US Crisis: Direct Impact On Malaysia?

Economic analysts feel Malaysia was unlikely to be impacted in a big way by the collapse of two venerable Wall Street financial institutions, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, local media reported yesterday. Both firms were victims of the sub-prime crisis in the United States.

"I can't see it having a direct impact on Malaysia. Any impact is likely to be indirect," said Wong Ming Tek, head of research at HwangDBS Vickers Research. Banks in Malaysia had in the last few months said they didn't have any major sub-prime exposure, and as such, Malaysia is likely to be spared the direct fallout from the collapse of the two financial institutions.

News of their collapse will, however, affect investor sentiment. On Monday, it sent stock markets in Europe and Asia reeling. "This will inevitably affect our stock market valuations," said Clement Chew, head of equities broking at JP Morgan in Malaysia.

Lehman, which Monday filed for bankruptcy protection in the US, does not have a presence in Malaysia.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

i dont know why abdullah hand up the finance minister post to najib

Anonymous said...

biasala tu..
hw is shutting mouth of the people who forcing him to step down as PM.
he said it is a long term plan to the power transition.
well, we are going to witness it.

Anonymous said...

actualy the US economic crisis does not impact on Malaysia, but these crisis will be made use by oue govt as an excuse to the local market economic slowdown..

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