Category: CORONA-COVID-19
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6 more weeks and coronavirus will affect the Malaysian economy hard.
This was one recent article about how the coronavirus will affect the world economy. The writer shared many points to show that the virus will not significantly affect the world economy unless of course the coronavirus is prolonged. Here’s that article: The coronavirus worry. How will it affect the world economy Needless to say I…
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Please reduce the SST %. It will help the economy.
If you have read kopiandproperty.my long enough, you may know that I am for GST and against SST. However, I have no wish to debate on this today. Whatever the government of the day has decided, I will accept yeah. Sales and Service Tax (SST) was reintroduced in 2018 and the goods are taxed between…
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Maybe even lower home loan rates and lower fixed deposit rates this year.
It was a surprise for many when Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) reduced the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) recently. Article here: Yeah, lower mortgage rates, Oops, lower FD rates too It’s loved by many home buyers and yet it’s not a good news at all for those with lots of fixed deposits (FD in banks. While…
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GDP forecast stays despite coronavirus. Stimulus can be later if needed.
Malaysia’s GDP growth for 2019 is expected to be 4.7%. This is a good number yeah. For 2020, our Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng had earlier announced that the projection is for 4.8%. This is also considered a very good number but there has been many other predictions by others and the number of 4.8%…
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Precautions are needed please. Coronavirus is now in Malaysia.
Everyone, this is serious. I think every media outlet must do their part to alert everyone about this and not to take it lightly. Please refer to the official news from the Health Minister himself here. He announced that Malaysia has confirmed three cases of the Wuhan coronavirus in Malaysia. All the three are China…