A result season to forget 

By PANKAJ C. KUMAR

SINCE the last reporting season and over the past three months, the FBM KLCI has turned more volatile due to external factors.

This was after US President Donald Trump imposed a reciprocal tariff rate of 24% on Malaysia as well as on the rest of world with a rate from as low as 10% to as high as 49%.

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