{"id":52728,"date":"2015-01-12T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T06:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=52728"},"modified":"2015-01-12T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T06:46:10","slug":"stanchart-predicts-solid-growth-for-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=52728","title":{"rendered":"StanChart predicts solid growth for Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Standard Chartered Bank expects Malaysia to record a solid growth of 5.9 per cent for 2014.It would be the highest growth performance for the country since the global economic crisis.It has projected the last quarter to chalk a 5.2-5.3 per cent year-on-year growth.2015 will be a slower year in terms of growth to record a 5.5 per cent\u00c2\u00a0 partly due to the high base effects.Economist Edward Lee said Malaysia should benefit from a pick-up in global demand in the second half of the year.&quot;Non-commodity exports form 70 per cent of the total,&quot; he said, in his presentation at the bank&#8217;s global research briefing here.Headwinds are expected to be seen in the consumption side to record a six per cent from 7 per cent last year.He expects the property sector to consolidate this year on the back of a highly leverraged household sector.StanChart expects Bank Negara to raise the interest rate by 25 basis points in November.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/14nBHSp\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Standard Chartered Bank expects Malaysia to record a solid growth of 5.9 per cent for 2014.It would be the highest growth performance for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52729,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52728\/revisions\/52729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}