Overview

Highlights

The Leading Index (LI) which monitors the economic performance in advance registered a growth of 1.3% in September 2015 to 118.5 points from 117.0 points in August 2015. The increased was underpinned by Number of Housing Units Approved (0.8%), Real Imports of Semi Conductors (0.4%), Real Money Supply, M1 and Bursa Malaysia Industrial Index which registered 0.2%, respectively. The annual change of LI remained negative in the reference month but it showed an improvement as compared to the previous month.

The Coincident Index (CI) which measures the current economic activity, rose 0.7% in September 2015. Three components that recorded an increase in the reference month were Volume Index of Retail Trade (0.5%), Industrial Production Index (0.3%) and Total Employment in Manufacturing sector (0.2%). The annual change of CI accelerated to 1.3% in September 2015 as against 0.7% in the preceding month.

The annual change of LI and CI showed an improvement in September 2015 as compared to the previous month. However, both Diffusion Indexes remained below 50.0%. Based on the persistent fluctuation shows in LI and CI, this implies that the Malaysian economy will continue to expand albeit at 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
23 November 2015

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