Malaysia’s economy contracted by 3.9 per cent in the second quarter from a year ago, less than expected, and pace of decline slowed from a 6.2 per cent drop in the first quarter, signalling the start of a slow recovery for this export-dependent country.
Economists in a Reuters poll had forecast gross domestic product would drop by 5.1 per cent due to poor demand for Malaysian exports, which account for 110 per cent of gross domestic product.
Central bank Governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz told a press conference that the budget, due in October, would see a revision to government forecasts that the economy would shrink 4-5 per cent for the full year and that the drop would be less than that.
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