KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia's key index closed higher at midday, mirroring the upbeat regional performance.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia meningkat semula untuk dibuka tinggi pada Isnin berikutan ketegangan di Asia Barat yang mereda meningkatkan sentimen pasaran selepas Amerika Syarikat (AS) menghentikan sementara serangan udara pada hujung minggu lalu.

Running frontier artificial intelligence (AI) is not cheap. For a time, “token maxxing” was the corporate mantra du jour. Earlier this year, companies encouraged employees to maximise their AI usage by consuming as many tokens as possible. Tokens, in this context, refer to the basic unit of computing. The assumption was that greater AI utilisation would translate into greater productivity — never mind that the relationship between AI usage and output quality is not necessarily linear.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia dibuka meningkat seiring pasaran serantau ketika prestasi pendapatan memberangsangkan syarikat teknologi turut mendorong kenaikan saham berkaitan sektor itu di peringkat tempatan.

KUALA LUMPUR: Beneath Malaysia's modest growth in vehicle sales in the first half of 2026 lies a market undergoing a rapid shake-up, as fast-growing brands gain ground while many established marques struggle to maintain momentum.

The automotive sector may be on track for a stronger second half of financial year 2026 (2H26) after total industry volume (TIV) exceeded expectations in the first six months of the year.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia ditutup rendah pada Rabu apabila pelabur terus mengambil keuntungan selepas peningkatan pasaran baru-baru ini, manakala lonjakan harga minyak mentah serta ketegangan geopolitik berterusan di Asia Barat mengekalkan sentimen berhati-hati.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia closed lower on Wednesday as investors continued to take profit following the recent rally, while elevated crude oil prices and lingering geopolitical tensions in the Middle East kept market sentiment cautious, said an analyst.

KUALA LUMPUR: The FBM KLCI ended lower for a third consecutive session on Wednesday, tracking mixed regional markets as investors remained cautious amid geopolitical tensions that pushed oil prices to near six-week highs.

The printing press industrialised ideas. The internet collapsed the cost of distributing them. Artificial intelligence (AI) is now collapsing the cost of producing them.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia's key index closed higher on Friday, supported by sustained foreign fund inflows and improving domestic macroeconomic fundamentals.

KUALA LUMPUR: Indeks utama Bursa Malaysia kembali mengukuh pada Khamis selepas mengalami penurunan pada sesi sebelumnya, disokong pembelian menyeluruh merentas pelbagai sektor.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia’s key index rebounded from yesterday’s losses to close higher on Thursday, driven by broad-based buying across multiple sectors.

The future of media in the AI age (Part 7)”, published last week, was likely to have been too theoretical and abstract, maybe even futuristic, to many readers. But the fact is that artificial intelligence (AI) is already here and will hugely impact media. Those media companies that successfully navigated the challenge from social media may not all be also successful navigating AI.

Malaysia's stock market is expected to remain resilient in the second half of 2026 (2H26), although the operating environment will become more challenging.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia dibuka tinggi hari ini, seiring prestasi positif Wall Street yang dipacu saham teknologi walaupun pelabur terus memantau perkembangan geopolitik di Asia Barat.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia opened higher on Friday, tracking overnight gains on Wall Street spearheaded by tech stocks, amid West Asia uncertainties.

KUALA LUMPUR: Aktiviti belian pada akhir dagangan mendorong Bursa Malaysia ditutup tinggi pada Rabu walaupun pasaran serantau mencatatkan prestasi bercampur-campur.

KUALA LUMPUR: Late buying interest lifted Bursa Malaysia to a slightly higher close on Wednesday, reversing earlier losses and bucking the mixed performance across regional markets.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia turned marginally lower at midday today as mild profit-taking emerged in the late morning session, dampening market sentiment.