Daily Market Report (27 March 2023)
- Wall Street closed higher last Friday despite fears that the banking crisis was spilling over to Deutsche Bank.
- The selling of Deutsche Bank's stocks had a negative impact on market sentiment, however the market was supported by buying momentum in megacap tech and other sectors, which helped to lift all major indexes into positive territory.
- The DJIA gained more than 130 points while S&P500 and Nasdaq added 22 and 36 points respectively.
- Over in Hong Kong, the HSI closed marginally lower as investors are worried that more banks might suffer a debilitating outflow of customers following the second and third largest US bank failures in history.
- Back home, FBM KLCI fell below the 1,400 mark due to negative sentiment across the region.
- We believe the recent banking crisis in the US and Europe has very little impact to Malaysia as our banking system is highly regulated whereby asset quality risks are well contained.
- However, due to uncertain global and regional conditions, we expect short-term market sentiment to remain nervous.
- Having said that, the local benchmark index is still in oversold position, thus we expect bargain hunting to emerge and anticipate the FBM KLCI to trend within the 1,400-1,410 for today.