PETALING JAYA: Interest rates on car loans have increased by an average of 0.25 percentage point for national cars and 0.7 percentage point for non-national makes since the overnight policy rate — the benchmark interest rate which determines banks’ lending rates — was revised upwards by 25 basis points to 2.25% [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: HSBC Holdings plc senior Asian economist Robert Prior-Wandesforde expects Malaysia’s gross domestic product (GDP) to expand 7.3% this year on rising exports fuelled by higher commodity prices and domestic demand. His forecast for 2010 was revised from the 6.8% made last year and higher than Bank Negara’s forecast of [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: OCBC Bank expects two rounds of interest rate hike, each by 25 basis points, in the remaining nine months of this year, bringing the overnight policy rate to 2.75%.On March 3, Bank Negara raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 2.25%, the first since November 2005. “We don’t think [...]
BANK Negara’s decision to raise the overnight policy rate (OPR) by 25 basis points on March 4 must have jolted many people out of their slumber into realising that the days of low lending rates may be numbered. While some Malaysians, especially those who are risk-averse and prefer to keep their savings [...]
PETALING JAYA: Benchmark interest rates are set to gradually rise by 25 to 75 basis points before year-end after Bank Negara signalled its readiness to normalise interest rates in due course as a pre-emptive move to prevent the build-up of financial imbalances, say economists. RAM Holdings Bhd chief economist Dr Yeah Kim Leng said although the [...]
