KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 — Bursa Malaysia opened marginally higher today amidst better Wall Street performance overnight.
It said further clarity on the United States’ fiscal policy direction and the calmer Chinese markets would help to provide some measure of stability after the volatile spell over the past couple of weeks. “We reckon that the recovery theme sectors will remain as the focal point with the nationwide adult population vaccination rate now above the 80 per cent level.
Among the heavyweights, IHH Healthcare advanced six sen to RM6.70, TNB gained three sen to RM10.02, Press Metal went up three sen to RM5.73, Public Bank and Petronas Chemicals were flat at RM4.06 and RM8.08, respectively, while Maybank fell two sen to RM8.13 and CIMB shed one sen to RM4.86.
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