► Strategy – KLCI (POSITIVE, maintain) - Budget 2017: Balanced progress

Today’s Highlights

►    Strategy – KLCI (POSITIVE, maintain) - Budget 2017: Balanced progress

►    Economy  – Budget 2017 - A People-Friendly and Pro-Business 2017 Budget

►    Economy  – MOF Economic Report 2016/2017 - Cautiously optimistic economic outlook in 2017

►    Economy – CPI - Headline inflation stayed flat at 1.5% yoy in September

Outside Malaysia            

►    US stocks little changed as deal talk offsets earnings worry

►    Fed’s Williams sees a rate hike this year and a ‘few’ in 2017

►    UK budget deficit leaves Hammond little room for maneuver

►    BOJ’s Kuroda says no immediate need to reduce asset purchases

►    Falling food prices slow Brazil inflation to two-year low

►    Iraq balks at joining OPEC cuts, making oil output deal harder

►    WTI holds above US$50 as market waits for output deal