► Company Update – Perak Transit (BUY, maintain) - Land acquisition for business expansion

Today’s Highlights

►    Company Update – Perak Transit (BUY, maintain) - Land acquisition for business expansion

►    Results Note – Astro (BUY, maintain) - Adex and Go Shop to boost growth

Quick Bites

►     Sime Darby partners with ENGIE to develop solar energy and integrated facilities in Malaysia

Outside Malaysia            

►    US stocks climb, led by financials as energy rallies with oil

►    Yellen says pockets of ‘persistently high’ unemployment remain

►    Fed’s Fischer says two more 2017 rate hikes seem about right

►    US goods-trade gap shrank in February, inventories rose

►    Home prices in 20 US cities rise at fastest pace since 2014

►    US consumer confidence unexpectedly surges to a 16-year high

►    Britain heads into unknown as May signs Brexit trigger

►    Crude rises as Libya seen cutting shipments from biggest field