Spotlight on size of fiscal deficit


KUALA LUMPUR: Ahead of Budget 2019, the focus is increasingly shifting to the size of the fiscal deficit and how rating agencies will react.

According to Maybank Investment Bank Bhd’s group chief economist Suhaimi Ilias, the immediate concern is how investors and rating agencies will react to the new budget deficit numbers.

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