Our economy in 2Q14

Folks,

The latest article I wrote was about Malaysia's economy in the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14). Apparently, our economy has recorded robust growth which beats the Bank Negara Malaysia's GDP 2014 forecast between 4.5% and 5.5%.

And in an interview with them last week, Nomura Securities economist projects that our economy will expand to 6% in 2014.

Source: The Edge Financial Daily, Monday, August 18, 2014, page 6

Our economy grew 6.2% and 6.4% in 1Q14 and 2Q14, respectively.
In the six month of this year, (1H14), the economy grew by 6.3%.

You can read the statement by Bank Negara Malaysia for 1Q14 here, and 2Q14 here.

For other research reports on analysis of the 2Q14 GDP, please find it here:

#	Research House	Research Report Title	GDP Forecast
			Previous Forecast for 2014	Latest Forecast for 2014
1	BIMB Securities	Malaysia’s economy accelerates in 2Q (click here to read)	5.2%	5.8%
2	Hong Leong Investment Bank (HLIB) Research	2Q14 GDP: Surprise On the Upside (click here to read)	5.7%	6.0%
3	DBS Research	Daily Breakfast (click here to read)	5.2%	Will be announced in September
4	M&A Securities	Najibnomics is Working: 1H14 GDP at Solid 6.3% (click here to read)	5.0%	5.5%
5	AmResearch	Malaysia sustains robust growth in 2Q14 (click here to read)	5.3%	5.7%
6	CIMB Research	2Q14 GDP: strong growth spells rate hikes in Sep (click here to read)	5.5%	6.0%
7	JF Apex Securities	2Q GDP: Surprise, surprise (click here to read)	5.3%	5.5%
8	AllianceDBS Research	2Q sizzles on stronger exports recovery (click here to read)	6.0%	5.5%
9	MIDF Research	2Q 14 Real GDP stronger-than-expected, growth to moderate in the 2H 2014 (click here to read)	-	5.5%

Source: various