Bank Negara to hold OPR at 3.0% through end-2024


BENGALURU: Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) will hold its key policy rate at 3.00% on Thursday, adopting the same no-change stance as most of its Asian peers amidst signs of moderating economic growth and cooling inflation, a Reuters poll of economists showed.

Inflation in the Southeast Asian nation dropped to a two-year low of 2.0% in July and the central bank, which does not particularly target inflation in setting monetary policy, said it would cool further.

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