The FBM KLCI rebounded from a 4-day losing streak amidst mixed regional performances as investors scooped up beaten-down shares. Despite the rebound on Wall Street, we believe the market sentiment will remain cautious on the back of concerns over global supply chain crisis which may slowdown the pace of economic recovery. Meanwhile, under the current inflationary environment, investors may favour sectors that are benefitted from the commodity boom.

The FBM KLCI suffered its fourth straight session of decline, marking the longest losing streak since end of January 2022 as banking and healthcare heavyweights led losses. Given the selldown in technology stocks on Wall Street, we believe it may spillover to the tech sector on the local front. However, we still expect selected stocks in the consumer and REITs sectors to outperform the market on the back of business recovery catalyst.

Steep selloff in plantation heavyweights sent the FBM KLCI into the negative territory amidst mixed regional performances. Investors are likely to trade cautiously at the start of the session, prior to the release of Malaysia’s inflation rate tomorrow. Nevertheless, we believe bargain hunting activities could kick in as the concerns over inflation may have priced in and traders may focus in the recovery-themed sectors. Also, we believe buying interest may emerge in the technology stocks in line with the rebound in Wall Street.

The FBM KLCI underperformed its regional peers, due largely to final hour selldown in selected banking and commodity related heavyweights. Given the buying into the dip move on Wall Street, we expect some bargain hunting activities may emerge on the local front, especially in the technology stocks. Investors may watch out for Malaysia’s inflation rate and the US FOMC meeting minutes this week.

The FBM KLCI fell in tandem with most of the regional markets (except for China) due to concerns over elevated inflation and prolong Russia-Ukraine conflicts. Investors may remain cautious over the near term as current market sentiment could be exacerbated by the ongoing volatility on Wall Street. On a side note, Indonesia’s move to lift a ban on palm oil export could bring a relief to global market and lower the CPO price.

The FBM KLCI rebounded as investors continued to scoop up beaten-down shares, especially the banking heavyweights. Nevertheless, we expect market sentiment to remain fragile as volatility and selling pressure resumed on Wall Street on the back of inflation fears and weak results from retailers. Also, the hard-hit technology stocks may face further selloff under this interest rate hike environment. Nevertheless, we are slightly positive on the recovery-themed sectors.

The FBM KLCI extended its gains on the back of returned buying interest in selected commodity related heavyweights led by PMETAL. We are expecting that the broad-based recovery on the local bourse could extend in tandem with the (i) rebound on Wall Street overnight following the release of retail sales data in April and (ii) optimism on China’s announcement on easing lockdowns.

The FBM KLCI ended slightly higher despite the mixed sentiment on Wall Street. Given the persistent inflation worries, we believe the recent rebound could be short lived and we may anticipate selling pressure to emerge in the near term once the Fed’s quantitative tightening take place in June and this may affect the sentiment on the technology stocks. Back on the local front, we expect bargain hunting activities to emerge within the recovery-themed and plantation sectors ahead of the reporting season.