KUALA LUMPUR: The FBM KLCI fell firmly into the red headed into the lunch break as heavyweights Public Bank and Top Glove dragged on the market.... The performance was was at odds with key regional markets, which was seen recovering from earlier jitters ahead of US inflation data.... Back home, bank stocks were hit by weaker market sentiment, which saw Public Bank dropping four sen to RM4.02 while Hong Leong Bank slid 18 sen to RM18.62 and CIMB fell two sen to RM4.82....

A POSITIVE development for Pakistan’s upcoming general elections on Thursday is the declining

ISLAMABAD: The erstwhile federally administe-red tribal areas( Fata) is now in the mainstream, but with half the number of seats in the National Assembly. The 12 seats allocated to Fata — merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018 after the 25th constitutional amendment — under the Musharraf regime have been abolished and six seats have been allocated to KP based on its population, according to the Election Commission of Pakistan’s( ECP) preliminary delimitation report.... As a result, the number o

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concerns of declining average selling price( ASP) trend and lack of strong catalysts over the medium term

After spiking to a record 7.02 per cent last week, the borrowing cost for the states has declined

duty and customs duty-before devolution to the states declined in October this financial year, leading

1. 55bil. The market breadth remained deeply negative with 723 decliners compared to 225 gainers

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and industrial stocks accounting for most of the decline. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost