Malaysian Economic Indicators Leading Coincident Lagging Indexes September 2017

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1. EMBARGO : Only to be published or disseminated at 1200 hours, Friday, 24 November 2017 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA PRESS RELEASE MALAYSIAN ECONOMIC INDICATORS: LEADING, COINCIDENT & LAGGING INDEXES SEPTEMBER 2017
2. Malaysian economy is expected to continue expanding in the first quarter of 2018 The annual change of Leading Index (LI) which monitors the economic performance in advance remained unchanged at 2.6% in September 2017. However, the monthly change of LI registered a decrease of 0.2% in the reference month. The main component that caused the decrease was Number of New Companies Registered (-0.7%). The Coincident Index (CI) which measures the current economic activity, decreased 0.5% in September 2017. Three components of CI that posted the decrease were Volume Index of Retail Trade (-0.4%), Industrial Production Index (-0.2%) and Real Contributions to EPF (-0.1%). However, the annual change of CI improved further to 3.0% in the reference month. The increase is in line with the growth of Gross Domestic Product at constant price which expanded 6.2% in the third quarter of 2017 from 5.8% in the previous quarter. The annual change of LI and CI in September 2017 remained favorable at a slower momentum as compared to the previous month. Supported by the level of both Diffusion Indexes above 50.0% since January 2017, it is expected that the Malaysia’s economy to continue expanding in the first quarter of 2018. Note: P Peak, T Trough (The complete indicators on Leading, Coincident and Lagging Indexes are shown in the following Table 4 Released By: DATO' SRI DR. MOHD UZIR MAHIDIN CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA 24 November 2017 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 ).