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By Danni Haizal Danial Donald
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- The ringgit continued its upward momentum on Tuesday, closing higher against the US dollar as news of some ships being allowed safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz eased demand for safe haven assets and lifted regional currencies.
By Danni Haizal Danial Donald
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- Gold futures on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives ended slightly higher on Tuesday, tracking gains in the US COMEX gold market.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- Bursa Malaysia Securities Bhd has publicly reprimanded and fined KAF Investment Bank Bhd (KAF IB) RM300,000 for breaching the Bursa Malaysia Securities ACE Market listing requirements (ACE LR).
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- The Kuala Lumpur rubber market extended its mixed performance for the third consecutive trading day on Tuesday, tracking regional rubber futures, a trader said.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- Bursa Malaysia rebounded after two days of losses to close higher on Tuesday, driven by bargain-hunting activities and in line with the upbeat regional market performance.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- MidOcean Energy (MidOcean), a liquefied natural gas (LNG) company formed and managed by EIG, announced it has secured an equity capital raise of more than US$1.2 billion. (US$1=RM3.91)
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- Kioxia Corporation, a leader in memory solutions, has demonstrated high-dimensional vector search scaling to 4.8 billion vectors on a single server using its open-source KIOXIA AiSAQ approximate nearest neighbour search (ANNS) technology.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- Skild AI has announced expanded collaborations with NVIDIA, ABB Robotics and Teradyne Robotics’ Universal Robots (UR) and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) to deploy its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered robot brain across multiple industries.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- The Hire-Purchase (Amendment) Act 2026 (HPAA) continues to allow hire-purchase providers to offer both fixed-rate and variable-rate loans, said Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM).
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- Helical Fusion Co Ltd, a Japanese fusion energy company, has announced the construction site for Phase 1 of Helix HARUKA, its Integrated Demonstration Device.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- The Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (RISDA) has successfully purchased and collected a total of 1,197.77 metric tonnes of smallholder rubber, with a cumulative purchase worth RM3.79 million as of February, during the implementation period of the Main Rubber Buyer initiative, which has been active since early January 2026.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- Kioxia Corporation, a leader in memory solutions, has announced the development of a Super High (input/output operations per second) IOPS solid-state drive (SSD) designed to enhance artificial intelligence (AI) systems by enabling graphics processing units (GPUs) to directly access high-speed flash memory.
