China-based HB Global Ltd (KL:HBGLOB) announced last week that its Oct 15 application to change its financial year end for the second time this year — from June 30 to Nov 30 — had been rejected by Singapore’s Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA).

Frankly Speaking: When saying ‘no’ sends the right signal

Banks

NOMURA RESEARCH (OCT 13): We are turning increasingly bullish on Malaysian banks as the recent bond yield spike-driven derating appears overdone, in our view. Our positive stance is based on three key reasons: 1) we think conc...

Brokers Digest: Local Equities - Banks, MN Holdings Bhd, IJM Corp Bhd, Deleum Bhd

JERUSALEM (Oct 27): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a fight for political survival in Israel's election on Tuesday, with voters weighing his leadership after the 2023 Hamas-led attacks, wars in Gaza and with Iran, and Israel's deepening international isolation.

Netanyahu's political survival on the line as Israel votes

KUCHING (Oct 27): A notification letter on the dissolution of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly has been sent to the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday, said Speaker Tan Sri Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar.

He said he had received the declaration of the dissolution of th...

EC notified of Sarawak State Assembly dissolution — Speaker

theedgemalaysia.com highlighted three stocks with positive momentum and two stocks with negative momentum at Bursa Malaysia’s afternoon close on Tuesday.

Stocks with momentum on Oct 27, 2026: Ni Hsin, Rekatech, Revenue IF, AME REIT, Kumpulan Perangsang Selangor

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 27): Matrix Concepts Holdings Bhd's (KL:MATRIX) unit, Matrix Concepts (Southern) Sdn Bhd, has signed separate sale and purchase agreements (SPAs) to acquire 57 parcels of land spanning about 174.77 hectares in Kulai, Johor, for RM169.31 million in cash.

Matrix Concepts to acquire 175 hectares of land in Kulai for RM169 mil

BANGKOK (Oct 27): Thailand's cabinet on Tuesday approved a 50 billion baht (US$1.48 billion) rooftop solar programme, a finance ministry official said, part of the government's energy transition policy.

Thai cabinet approves US$1.5 bil rooftop solar scheme

DIP Holding plc drew enough demand to cover its up to US$543 million initial public offering within minutes of opening books, signalling strong appetite for the United Arab Emirates’ first listing since the Iran war began.

Dubai firm’s US$543 mil IPO covered within minutes despite war

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 27): LPI Capital Bhd’s (KL:LPI) net profit fell 15.7% to RM96.82 million in the third quarter ended Sept 30, 2026, from RM114.83 million a year earlier, due to lower profit from its investment holding segment.

LPI Capital’s 3Q net profit eases to RM96.82 mil

Notable filings

From Oct 5 to 9, notable filings at Bursa Malaysia-listed companies included those at Salutica Bhd (KL:SALUTE), in which Singapore-based Fortune Innovative VCC Sub-Fund GEMS High Yield Investment Fund ceased to be a substantial shareholder after dispos...

Insider Moves: Salutica Bhd, Tambun Indah Land Bhd, Lee Swee Kiat Group Bhd, Solarvest Holdings Bhd, Excel Force MSC Bhd, Zetrix AI Bhd

While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries about AI demand and curbs on Chinese exports.

In China, the AI bubble has already burst

(Oct 27):&nbsp;Malaysia is expected to attract more interest as a data centre hub following the outbreak of the US-Iran war, according to SD Guthrie Bhd (KL:SDG), giving the palm oil giant and the country’s biggest landowner an opportunity to capitalise on the boom.

Iran war boosts Malaysian data centre appeal, SD Guthrie says

Asian stocks surged on Tuesday as artificial intelligence (AI) bellwether Anthropic's eagerly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) filing lifted risk appetite ahead of tech earnings that will be a test for the AI trade, and central bank meetings that will influence near-term interest rates.

Asian stocks rise as AI enthusiasm returns ahead of earnings, central bank decisions

CIMB Group Holdings Bhd’s (KL:CIMB) planned sale of its business in the Philippines has drawn interest from local rivals including Bank of the Philippine Islands and Metropolitan Bank &amp; Trust Co, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

CIMB attracts BPI, Metrobank for Philippine unit sale — Bloomberg

The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) must help more Malaysians achieve retirement adequacy by adapting to changing employment patterns while continuing to deliver sustainable returns, said Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan.

EPF must help more Malaysians achieve retirement adequacy, says Amir Hamzah

Malaysia's technology stocks outperformed on Tuesday, catching the buzz over artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic that has officially filed for its listing.

Malaysia's tech stocks rally, ViTrox extends gain amid Anthropic listing buzz

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 27): The government is considering a proposed Government-Owned Entities Bill to tighten governance of government-linked companies (GLCs) and related agencies, while preventing misappropriation such as that which occurred in 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), Felda and Tabung Haji.

PM: Proposed Government-Owned Entities Bill to tighten governance, prevent misappropriation

The nexus between business and politics in Corporate Malaysia has always produced a number of casualties. Whenever there was a change in the alignment of power in the government, businessmen who were seen to have been close to the ousted politicians were often punished.

On that score, P...

Alternative Views: What happens after the corporate mafia probe is crucial

Kylian Mbappe was dropped Tuesday by two major brands in China after a video circulated online in which the French football superstar apparently joked about former leader Mao Zedong.

Mbappe dropped by Chinese brands for 'offending national sentiments'

NEW DELHI (Oct 27): Oil prices edged lower on Tuesday, falling about 1% as prospects for a resolution of the US-Israeli war on Iran kept supply fears at bay with talks in Tehran, despite renewed Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia.

Oil slips 1% as Iran diplomacy eases supply fears

SINGAPORE (Oct 27): Singaporean state gas buyer GasCo launched its first procurement exercise to secure term supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG), said Gan Siow Huang, the country's minister of state for energy, trade and industry.

Singapore launches first LNG term supply tender, weighs third import terminal

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 27): Seasonal recovery of crude palm oil (CPO) production is expected to drive earnings growth of the plantation sector for the third quarter of the year (3Q2026), said HongLeong Investment Bank (HLIB) Research.

HLIB expects seasonal CPO recovery to drive 3Q2026 plantations sector earnings

ZHENGZHOU, China (Oct 27):&nbsp;Around 70% of the 2 million carats of lab-grown diamonds produced annually at Feng Canjun's factory currently go into jewellery.

But the entrepreneur is betting that the future of ​China's synthetic diamond industry lies in supplying advanced materials fo...

China's lab-grown diamond makers target AI, chip sectors for next wave of growth

Putrajaya’s quiet retreat from a 50% bumiputera equity requirement for buyers of government-linked company (GLC) and government-linked investment company (GLIC) assets is, on balance, a pragmatic call.

Frankly Speaking: Back to 30%, but not back to certainty

(Oct 26): Federal Reserve policymakers have telegraphed they will not raise US short-term borrowing costs again this week, but with inflation concerns still front and center, investors believe a rate-hike pause ​will not last for long.

Data due just one day after the Fed's anticipated d...

Fed to hit pause on rate hikes, but maybe not for long

Cloud-seeding missions in the skies above Southeast Asia have done little to snuff out wildfires or disperse the haze that’s cloaked the region for months, exposing the limitations of attempts to modify the weather.

El Niño fires test limits of Southeast Asia’s cloud-seeding bet

Nearly two months after Yinson Holdings Bhd’s (KL:YINSON) largest shareholder, the Lim family (27.7%), and MISC Bhd (KL:MISC) confirmed preliminary talks with another shareholder Employees Provident Fund (17.09%) to take the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) company private, a firm intention has yet to be announced.

Frankly Speaking: Yinson privatisation sees longer runway

(Oct 26): The world's largest technology companies are tapping debt markets and raising equity to bolster AI infrastructure, marking a shift for Silicon Valley firms that typically relied on cash to fund their investments.

Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta signaled in April that spen...

Tech companies tap debt, equity to fund AI and cloud expansion

The iPhone Duo, one of Apple Inc’s biggest new products in years, is drawing a growing number of complaints from customers who say the foldable display cracked after just hours or days of use.

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