Overview

Highlights

The Leading Index (LI) which monitors the economic performance in advance showed a decrease of 0.6% in April 2015 to 118.6 points from 119.3 points in the previous month. Three out of seven components of LI recorded a decrease led by Real Money Supply, M1 (-0.4%), followed by Real Imports of Semi Conductors and Number of Housing Units Approved which registered negative 0.2%, respectively. The annual change of LI declined to 0.9% from 2.8% recorded in the preceeding month.       

The Coincident Index (CI) which measures the current economic activity, decreased 1.1% in the reference month. This was due to the decrease recorded in Real Salaries & Wages in Manufacturing sector (-0.5%), Volume Index of Retail Trade (-0.4%) and Real Contributions to EPF (-0.2%). The annual change of CI slowed to 2.2% as compared to 4.4% in March 2015.

The annual change of LI and CI remained favourable albeit a lower growth as compared to the previous month. Supported by both Diffusion Indexes which were above 50.0%, this suggests that the Malaysian economy will continue to expand at a slower rate in the months ahead. 

 (The complete indicators on Leading, Coincident and Lagging Indexes are shown in the following Table 4  ).

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THE OFFICE OF CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, MALAYSIA
24 June 2015

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