Can a general election spark a market rally?


Bursa Malaysia, lacking excitement, needs a catalyst

SINCE 2014, the Malaysian stock market appears to be trapped in a curse, looking at how the main blue-chip and small-cap indices have struggled unsuccessfully to scale back to their previous record-high levels.

In contrast, the MSCI World Index and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index have soared to multiple new highs since 2014 with double-digit annual growth for many years.

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