Malaysia’s economy likely to grow in February 2019


Stronger economy: The Department of Statistics says the annual change of LI showed an improvement in October 2018.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's economy is likely to grow in February to April 2019, says the Department of Statistics.

In the “Malaysian Economic Indicators: Leading, Coincident and Lagging Indexes for October 2018” report released yesterday, chief statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said the annual change of the Leading Index (LI) showed an improvement to negative 0.7% in October 2018 from negative 1.7% in September 2018.

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