Overview

Highlights

The Leading Index (LI) which monitors the economic performance in advance decreased 0.3% in November 2016 to 116.4 points from 116.8 points recorded in October 2016. Number of Housing Units Approved (-0.5%) and Bursa Malaysia Industrial Index (-0.3%) were the main components that contributed to the decrease. The annual change of LI declined 1.4% in the reference month.

The Coincident Index (CI) which measures the current economic activity, registered a growth of 0.4% in November 2016. This was driven by almost all of the CI components particularly Volume Index of Retail Trade (0.2%). The annual change of CI expanded to 3.0% in the current month as against 2.7% in October 2016.

The annual growth of CI showed an improvement in November 2016 as compared to the previous month. However, the annual change of LI remained negative in the reference month. Concurrently, the Diffusion Index for CI reached 100.0% while Diffusion Index for LI was 42.9%. Thus, the Malaysian economy is expected to grow at a slower momentum in the coming months.

(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 January 2017

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