Central Banks

Malaysia Rate Cut Bets Mount as Tariff Shock Dims Growth Outlook

Malaysia’s first-quarter GDP growth of 4.4% on-year fell short of estimates, the slowest pace in a year. 

Photographer: Samsul Said/Bloomberg
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Investors increasingly expect Malaysia, Southeast Asia’s last holdout against interest rate cuts, to give in to mounting economic pressure from the global trade war.