► Sector Update – Plantation (NEUTRAL, maintain)

Today’s Highlights

►     Sector Update – Plantation (NEUTRAL, maintain)

Outside Malaysia            

►    US equities hold steady as banks rally amid decline in crude

►    Job openings in US increase in November

►    US small-business optimism index surges by most since 1980

►    Fed Hawk Lacker to retire Oct. 1, successor search under way

►    Trump tax cuts could jump-start global economy, World Bank says

►    China factory prices rising fastest in 5 years adds to reflation

►    Kuwait says OPEC, Russia to fulfill pledged oil-output cuts

►    Oil drops to one-month low on US supply outlook, OPEC concern