KUALA LUMPUR: Over 1,200 tickers on the Bursa Malaysia scoreboard flashed crimson as investors fled equities amid the rising threat of global tariffs.
As the early session ended for the lunch break, the FBM KLCI had plunged over 4.3% or 65 points to 1,439.07, en route to its worst one-day drop since the unwinding of the yen carry-trade in August 2024, and before that, the start of the Covid crisis in March 2020.
