PETALING JAYA: The year 2018 has turned out to be a tumultuous year for the local equity market.
Hampered by political changes on the domestic front and growing uncertainties in the external economic environment such as rising US interest rates and US-China trade tensions as well as volatile oil prices, what started as an upward trend for shares on Bursa Malaysia during the first half of the year eventually turned bearish towards the second half of the year.
