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Economy
GLICs, GLCs gear up for RM120bil growth push
Malaysia's major state-backed investment entities are accelerating their domestic capital deployment to propel high-growth, high-value industries while institutionalising better living standards for the national workforce.
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Economy
Govt: Growth between 4.2% and 5.2% in 2027
The economy is projected to expand between 4.2% and 5.2% in 2027 from between 4.8% and 5.3% this year supported by sustained domestic demand, favourable labour market conditions, continued income growth and firm investment activity.
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Star Biz7
Two-car race gets hotter
For years, Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua Sdn Bhd (Perodua) had little reason to look at the rearview mirror.
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Star Biz7
Time-tested appeal drives luxury watches
Heritage has proven to be a powerful commercial draw among luxury consumers.
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Business
WHEN AI ACCELERATES ATTACKS, CAN YOUR DEFENCES KEEP UP?
Nearly 30 years after Malaysia began building its national cyber emergency response through the establishment of MyCert, the biggest change in the threat landscape is not the volume of cyberattacks, but how quickly they can now take place.
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Star Biz7
Setting the right fitness tone
For a growing number of consumers, particularly millennials and Gen Z, health is becoming the new wealth.
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Star Biz7
Private equity’s tougher path to riches
Grinding on private equity (PE) deals through the winter, Garrett Werner used to gaze out at the Rockefeller Centre's Christmas tree in Midtown Manhattan. Nowadays, the view from his office in small-town Oklahoma takes in hundreds of truck beds.
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Star Biz7
AI borrowers face costly reality
The artificial intelligence (AI) boom is spreading into the riskier parts of the US debt market, but companies trying to borrow are finding that investors are asking a simple question: when will the money start coming in?
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Star Biz7
Higher bond yields for longer?
Bond yields around the world could have more room to climb as investors grapple with stubborn inflation, resilient economic growth and a flood of new debt that shows little sign of drying up.
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Insight
Who pays to stop the haze?
More than 200,000 pupils and students in Serian, Sarawak, have been caught in a cycle of closing and reopening of schools as the haze worsens and then temporarily clears.
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Star Biz7
Private equity rides megatrends
Private equity (PE) is set to play a bigger role in helping businesses navigate structural changes as geopolitical fragmentation, economic uncertainty and government intervention reshape markets.
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Insight
Setting up quantum-safe migration
Every time we bank online, access a cloud service or send sensitive information, cryptography is working quietly in the background.
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Star Biz7
Riding the choppy 4Q waters
Markets are heading into the final quarter of 2026 with investors having to balance resilient corporate earnings against a mix of political, fiscal and geopolitical risks.
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Star Biz7
French woes fuel contagion
The euro could face further pressure in the weeks ahead as rising French borrowing costs threaten to spill into the wider eurozone, adding another headache for policymakers already grappling with higher energy-driven inflation and weak growth.
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Short Position
It’s about execution
Malaysia's fiscal position may be improving, but its latest Auditor-General's Report findings point to a more stubborn problem – execution.
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Short Position
A lifeline for TXCD, a risk for Vestland
Vestland Resources' award of a RM110mil contract to beleaguered TXCD Bhd is notable.
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Short Position
AI boom in question, again
Asia is among the regions most vulnerable to an artificial intelligence (AI) correction, given its outsized role in supplying the chips, electronics and equipment underpinning the AI boom.
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Insight
Sum of all fears
The recent hike in global Treasury yields has led investors to reassess the equity market's attractiveness.
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