Malaysian Economic Indicators - Leading Coincident Lagging Indexes September 2016

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1. EMBARGO : Only to be published or disseminated at 1200 hours, Thursday, 24 November 2016 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA PRESS RELEASE MALAYSIAN ECONOMIC INDICATORS: LEADING, COINCIDENT & LAGGING INDEXES SEPTEMBER 2016 Highlights The Leading Index (LI) which monitors the economic performance in advance decreased slightly 0.1% in September 2016 to 117.2 points from 117.3 points in the previous month. This was influenced by the decreased in Number of New Companies Registered (-0.4%), Real Imports of Other Basic Precious & Other Non-ferrous Metal (-0.3%) and Real Money Supply, M1 (-0.1%). The annual change of LI declined 0.9% as compared with the increase of 0.1% in the last month. The Coincident Index (CI) which measures the current economic activity, rose in September 2016. The CI increased to 1.1%, propelled mainly by Volume Index of Retail Trade (0.5%). The annual change of CI grew 3.0% in the reference month from 2.4% in August 2016. The LI recorded a lower annual change as compared to the previous month. Conversely, the annual change of CI improved in the reference month. The Diffusion Index for LI was below 50.0% while the Diffusion Index for CI reached 83.3%. This implies that the Malaysian economy will continue to expand at a slower rate in the near term. (The complete indicators on Leading, Coincident and Lagging Indexes are shown in the following Table 4 Released By: THE OFFICE OF CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, MALAYSIA 24 November 2016 Contact person: Ho Mei Kei Public Relation Officer Corporate and User Services Division Department of Statistics, Malaysia Tel : +603-8885 7942 Fax : +603-8888 9248 Email : mkho[at]stats.gov.my ).