Strategy – KLCI (POSITIVE, maintain) - Battling perceptions

Today’s Highlights

►    Strategy – KLCI (POSITIVE, maintain) - Battling perceptions

►    Economy  – ASEAN Outlook – Weekly Wrap - Mixed trends in ASEAN PMIs, global PMI stays at 50

Outside Malaysia            

►    S&P 500 rises to seven-month high as investors await payrolls

►    Filings for US jobless benefits fall for third straight week

►    ADP says companies in US added 173,000 employees in May

►    ECB stimulus will include corporate bonds starting next week

►    Draghi vexed by feeble reforms as inflation remains weak

►    Brexit puts 400,000 services jobs at risk in UK, Osborne Warns

►    Brazil’s industrial production unexpectedly rises in April

►    Oil rises to seven-month high even as OPEC maintains status quo