AGP Executive Report
Last update: 12 hours agoCentral Banking & Growth: Bank Negara Malaysia’s governor says the economy is still on track for 4–5% growth despite an energy supply shock, with inflation manageable and reforms holding up. Trade Resilience: MATRADE says West Asia remains fluid and will keep feeding real-time intelligence to exporters via its overseas offices and a trade resilience task force. Energy Markets: Oil slid as US-Iran diplomacy hopes eased supply fears, though shipping risks and Red Sea disruption still hang over prices. Consumer Power Costs: A Philippine senator backs a plan to remove electricity systems loss charges to cut costs and improve fairness. Small Business Under Tariffs: Small businesses have filed lawsuits challenging sweeping US tariffs. Housing Finance: Australia moves to ban SMSF limited recourse borrowing for residential property, despite non-bank lenders reporting far higher activity than official estimates. Markets & Investing: SEBI is set to change India’s F&O closing auction rules from Aug 3 to improve end-of-day price setting. Retail & Payments: Wealthyhood and Bank of Cyprus launch low-cost retail access to Cyprus and Greece stocks via one app. Food & Safety: Ireland’s FSAI offers a free webinar for small food firms on building a Listeria monitoring programme.
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