Economics Malaysia

Monetary conditions in March appear to have tightened (log annual and monthly changes; seasonally adjusted): M2 growth fell to 6.0% yoy,...

I was really concerned when I first heard the news last week. After having a peek at the data, I’m don’t feel much better (log annual and mo...

Apropos of the Monetary Policy Committee Meeting last week, monetary conditions in Malaysia for 2013 up to March mirror developments in pric...

The other day, I characterised monetary conditions as boring – seems I might have spoken too soon. What is going on in the interbank and mo...

I was looking at liquidity conditions, and found something interesting, but I’ll get to that in a bit. M1 growth decelerated sharply in Octo...

I haven’t done one of these in quite a while, mostly through sheer lack of time, but given the upcoming Monetary Policy Committee meeting th...

Local monetary conditions in May appeared to be a little tighter, though growth in M2 looks to be within a “normal” pace of activity (log an...

With the next Monetary Policy Committee meeting due exactly one week from today, it’s nice timing to have January 2012 data on hand to give ...

Now that we know interest rates aren’t going to be cut, at least until March, what did the latest data tell BNM? The money supply situatio...

Quite unlike October, money supply in November rose largely based on higher FD’s but saw currency in circulation and current deposits fall (...

Money supply in October was a little schizophrenic – M1 growth rose sharply from higher demand deposits, but M2 growth dropped from lower FD...

Malaysian money supply growth accelerated through the quarter ended September, helped by a nice dose of extra fixed deposits and forex depos...

Money supply growth was fairly steady over the course of the last half of 2010, but as we get into the Year of the Rabbit, things have chang...

This post is over two weeks late, but what with CNY and other news taking centre stage, plus because this post looks at conditions near two ...

I’m late with this as usual. But it’s always useful to review happenings over the last few months, especially when they’re as surprising as ...

Fascinating things going on in the monetary side of the economy, though you won’t know it from the money supply data (log annual and monthly...

Monetary conditions were more or less stable over the past few months, but with narrow money falling as BNM took in old notes and coins in t...

With most of August falling within the month of Ramadhan, an uptick in the money supply is to be expected – much like for Chinese New Year, ...

There’s lots of things to talk about this month, but I haven’t much time to go into detail just yet. So this will be short and sweet, until ...

Despite three consecutive 25bp hikes in the Official Policy Rate, growth in M2 is keeping pretty steady (log annual and monthly changes, sea...