Malaysian Inflation Isn’t Misbehaving, Central Banker Says
- Future rate hikes depend on inflation behavior: BNM official
- Targeted subsidy timing could influence price pressures
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Malaysia’s inflation currently isn’t misbehaving, giving the central bank room to keep up its “conditional pause,” according to a senior official.
“If it’s food prices and all the supply shocks, we have a history of seeing through those shocks,” Bank Negara Malaysia’s Assistant Governor Fraziali Ismail said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Haslinda Amin on Thursday. “What matters is how it stokes demand. At this juncture, again, we don’t see for inflation to misbehave in Malaysia.”