YET, the Malaysian stock market is having its best days since March 14, 2022. The market's benchmark index VIEW :is up 9.86 per cent this year.
THE bullish stock market though cannot shake of the shades of North Korea, where everything is doctored to make the great dictator Kim Jong Un look great in his own eyes.
NEVER mind the seasonal foreign READ :foreign fund exodus, at levels last seen four years ago, but do worry how market requlators, which comes under the finance ministry, have single handedly lost two generations of would be investors due to perceived indifference in governance.
CONSIDER the following, VIEW : 32 per cent of Singaporean retail investors are in their 20's, while in the USA, VIEW : The average investor is aged 40.
BACK in Malaysia, where the stock market is rising, almost daily, READ: the average investor,has a foot in the grave,aged a young 78 to 60 years of age.
GOVERNMENT funds are responsible for pushing the market up. Push as they do, does anyone outside Putrajaya actually believe at ground zero, people are buying into the narrative that the good times are here.
Good for the Madani Government if they do. The flip side to this dramatic show is, if we the people of Malaysia fail to take the bait, Putrajaya will be left to deal with out CONTEMPT .