Mild profit taking after two days of gains

Rakuten Trade said with nominations for a new PM gathering pace, “we expect the index to consolidate a bit today”.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia shed some of the recent gains in early Wednesday trade as the nation awaited news about the successor for the prime minister’s post.

As sentiment was also weighed down by the overnight decline on Wall Street and cautious key Asian markets, retail investors were seen locking gains in semicon and chip stocks.