Glove stocks fall after Top Glove posts weaker 4Q results theedgemarkets.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theedgemarkets.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
THE share price rally in glovemakers on Bursa Malaysia appears to have been exhausted as shares of the companies failed to recover losses made on Tuesday after logistical concerns were raised on the distribution of the potential Covid-10 vaccine candidate by US drugmaker Pfizer Inc and German biotech firm BioNTech SE.With money moving into cyclical counters like banks and utilities, the seven major-listed rubber glove counters, which lost a total of RM19 billion in market capitalisation on Tuesday, struggled to retrace losses yesterday.Malacca Securities Sdn Bhd head of research Loui Low said the announcement of the success of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine on Monday has fundamentally changed the way investors invest and trade at this juncture.
Top Glove moves up again to 2nd-most valuable on Bursa themalaysianreserve.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from themalaysianreserve.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
THE Covid-19 pandemic has caused many companies to be in financial distress, forcing some to temporarily shut down factories and operations for at least two months from mid-March in 2020 and experiencing lower demand after that.
With numerous firms seeing a decline in earnings, and many falling into the red, one wonders how much Malaysia’s top brass were paid in 2020 versus the year before.
According to data compiled by The Edge, among the top 50 companies by market capitalisation, the heads of 15 firms took a pay cut, 13 saw a bump in their paycheques and only two those of Supermax Corp Bhd and Time dotcom Bhd had no change in pay.
KUALA LUMPUR (May 11): Based on corporate announcements and news flow today, stocks in focus for tomorrow (May 12) may include the following: Malayan Banking Bhd, FGV Holdings Bhd, Pos Malaysia Bhd, WTK Holdings Bhd, Public Bank Bhd, Bina Darulaman Bhd, Careplus Group Bhd, JF Technology Bhd, Media Chinese International Ltd, and Genting Bhd.
Malayan Banking Bhd s (Maybank) 100%-owned subsidiary Maybank Islamic Bhd today announced the buy-back of RM1.5 billion worth of Islamic bonds via private treaty under the latter s Islamic commercial papers and medium term notes programme of up to RM10 billion.
FGV Holdings Bhd has appointed Azman Ahmad, who is the group divisional director of logistics & support business, as officer-in-charge to cover the duties and responsibilities of the group chief executive officer (CEO) effective May 16, 2021.