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Bursa Malaysia dips at midday as regional peers slide

Bursa Malaysia slipped at midday, with the FBM KLCI down 3.86 points to 1,729.50 at 12.30 pm after Wall Street and regional bourses fell overnight.

Source: The Star · August 19, 2026 at 5:58 AM · AI-assisted report

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Bursa Malaysia dips at midday as regional peers slide
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KUALA LUMPUR, 19 AUGUST 2026 —

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Bursa Malaysia slipped at midday, with the FBM KLCI down 3.86 points to 1,729.50 at 12.30 pm after Wall Street and regional bourses fell overnight.

Market Impact

The index opened 1.39 points weaker at 1,731.97 and moved between 1,725.95 and 1,733.44 during the morning session, exchange data showed. Turnover reached 1.91 billion units worth RM1.31 billion.

Losers outnumbered gainers 633 to 364, with 503 counters unchanged, 1,373 untraded and 16 suspended.

Malacca Securities Sdn Bhd said in a note that U.S. technology profit-taking and higher Treasury yields were damping risk appetite, while geopolitical tensions in West Asia added pressure. “We expect weaker global technology sentiment to weigh on the FBM KLCI while higher Brent prices may support selected energy counters,” the broker said.

Regionally, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index gained 0.24% to 25,533.38, Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 3.10% to 65,370.63, South Korea’s KOSPI slid 5.52% to 6,490.29 and Singapore’s Straits Times Index lost 0.22% to 5,688.91.

Heavyweights were mixed: Maybank added two sen to RM10.64, Public Bank gained two sen to RM5.12 and IHH Healthcare rose 14 sen to RM8.29, while CIMB Group fell three sen to RM7.92 and Tenaga Nasional lost 10 sen to RM14.32.

On the most active list, Zetrix AI gained 1.5 sen to 65 sen, JAKS Resources was flat at 13 sen, Pentech Holdings added 3.5 sen to 32.5 sen, Nexgram Holdings dipped half a sen to 5.5 sen and Lotte Chemical Titan Holdings rose six sen to 37 sen.

Nestlé led gainers, adding 40 sen to RM104.10, Dutch Lady Milk Industries rose 38 sen to RM31.88 and Petronas Dagangan gained 30 sen to RM19.66. Fraser & Neave added 12 sen to RM26.42 and Ranhill Utilities climbed 11 sen to RM2.82.

Top losers included Malaysian Pacific Industries, which fell RM1.66 to RM46.36, United Plantations, which slipped 42 sen to RM32.18, Mi Technovation, which dropped 23 sen to RM6.22, and AMMB Holdings, which lost 20 sen to RM7.03.

Broad indices fell: the FBM 70 Index slid 67.18 points to 18,144.48, the FBM Emas Shariah Index lost 30.80 points to 12,635.94 and the FBM Emas Index dropped 33.45 points to 12,796.25. The FBM Top 100 Index erased 32.81 points to 12,611.73 and the FBM ACE Index fell 19.40 points to 5,281.78.

Sector moves were split: the Energy Index rose 0.58 point to 778.99 and the Industrial Products and Services Index added 0.09 point to 189.52, while the Plantation Index tumbled 82.79 points to 9,293.89 and the Financial Services Index slid 42.77 points to 20,265.22.

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