PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s Industrial Production Index (IPI), which rose by a higher-than-expected 12.5% in May versus a year earlier, will likely see a slower pace of growth in the second half of the year due to the sluggish recovery in the global economy and the diminishing low-base effects from last year.
A Bloomberg survey of economists had expected an increase of 10.5%.
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