Key to promoting a stable trajectory

PETALING JAYA: Amid the easing of inflation, experts are expecting Bank Negara to maintain its current pause on overnight policy rate (OPR) hikes at the next Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting to sustain and bolster economic growth.

With the inflation dynamic different in Malaysia compared with the United States, the fear of slowing growth has economists holding a bias that the rate cycle here may have peaked with policy makers likely to sustain the economic growth momentum post Covid-19.