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Malaysia to inject $1.4b into stock market
AFP, Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia will inject 1.4 billion dollars into the ailing stock market and cut its growth forecast for 2009 amid a worsening global financial crisis, the Finance Minister said Monday.
Najib Razak also said the government may review its 2008 and 2009 fiscal deficit forecast and scale back on infrastructure projects "with limited economic multiplier effect" for the year to cushion the impact of the economic crisis.
"We had projected GDP growth of 5.4 percent for 2009. However in the light of the worsening external developments. the growth forecast for 2009 will be reviewed downwards," Najib said in a speech at a conference in Kuala Lumpur.
In a separate event, the finance minister said Malaysia will not slide into recession, following its major trading partner the United States, which is in the middle of an economic crisis.
"Malaysia will not go into recession," he said, according to state Bernama news agency.
A leading think-tank last Thursday slashed its 2009 economic growth forecast for the country to 3.4 from 5.0 percent, and said there was a riskof recession if the US economy falls.
Earlier, Najib said the government will double the size of its state-run investment company Valuecap Sdn. Bhd, which was formed in 2003 to invest in under valued, but fundamentally strong shares, by pumping in an additional 5 billion ringgit (1.4 billion dollars).
Economic crisis hits passengers, cargo through Hong Kong airport AFP, Hong Kong
The number of passengers travelling through Hong Kong's airport dropped 4.7 percent year-on-year in September as the global financial crisis hits the aviation industry, die airport authority said.
Figures from the Hong Kong Airport Authority showed 3.6 million passengers came through the city’s airport during the month compared with 3.8 million a year earlier.
Cargo also dropped, with 317,000 tonnes handled in September, down 7.5 percent on the previous year, the authority's figures showed.
The number of flights edged down 0.4 percent to 24,570.
The reduction in passengers was mainly the result of fewer visitors to the territory, while travel by Hong Kong residents and transit passengers also decreased slightly, the figures showed.
On the cargo front, the decline was widespread, including • import, export and trans-shipment.
'The steep decline in traffic volumes in both passenger and air cargo clearly reflected a very troubled global economy as a result of the financial tsunami, which has affected all countries in the world," Stanley Hui, chief executive officer of the airport authority said in a statement released Sunday.
Markets turmoil may hurt PC demand in Asia, says monitor
AFP, Singapore
A record 20.2 million personal computers were sold in the Asia-Pacific region outside Japan in the third quarter, but global market turmoil could hurt demand, industry monitor IDC said Monday.
The third quarter sales represented a 12 percent rise from the previous year and a 9.0 percent increase compared with the second quarter, with strong demand for portable PCs driving the market, IDC said in a statement.
"While we have not seen any dramatic slowdown in orders in the past few weeks due to the recent financial crisis, Asia's PC markets nonetheless have been a bit soft due to the ongoing economic conditions that have been in play for a number of months now," said IDC analyst Bryan Ma.
"The latest rollercoaster ride in the global financial markets casts further uncertainty, especially if it eventually starts to pinch Asia's PC demand in the upcoming quarters.”
Ericsson sees plunging profit
AFP, Stockholm
Ericsson, the world leader in mobile phone network equipment, reported on Monday a 28-percent drop in third-quarter net profits, but insisted it remained largely unscathed by financial turmoil.
For the July to September period, Ericsson saw its net profit tumble to 2.8 billion kronor (281 million euros, 379 million dollars) from 4.0 billion 12 months earlier, largely due to a massive ongoing restructuring programme.
The company’s sales meanwhile grew 13 percent year-on-year to 49.2 billion kronor, with the numbers growing everywhere except in Western Europe, where they were down six percent from a year earlier.
Following the announcement, Ericsson saw its stock price skyrocket 17.13 percent just 30 minutes into trading to 58.80 kronor a share, in a market up 2.55 percent on average.