<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>KUALA LUMPUR (May 16): Vinvest Capital Holdings Bhd was issued an unusual market activity (UMA) query by Bursa Malaysia Securities Bhd, following a sharp fall in its share price and trading volume on Tuesday (May 16).</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>The counter plummeted 52.78% or 9.5 sen to 8.5 sen a share and became Bursa’s top sixth daily loser on Tuesday. Vinvest Capital was also the most-active stock on the local exchange, with 331.7 million shares traded.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Vinvest opened the day at 18 sen, its closing price on Monday, and settled at 16.5 sen by noon break on Tuesday. Shortly after the market resumed, the stock nosedived to 8.8 sen at about 2.54pm, and eventually dwindled to 8.5 sen.</p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Its highest trading activity was also in the afternoon, at about 2.30pm to 3.10pm.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>“Investors are advised to take note of the company's reply to the above UMA query, which will be posted on Bursa's website under the company announcements [section], when making their investment decisions,” Bursa said in a filing.</p></div>


KUALA LUMPUR (May 16): Vinvest Capital Holdings Bhd was issued an unusual market activity (UMA) query by Bursa Malaysia Securities Bhd, following a sharp fall in its share price and trading volume on Tuesday (May 16).

Vinvest Capital receives UMA query after share price sank 52.78%

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<p>Japan's Nikkei share average reversed early losses to end higher on Wednesday, driven by gains in the auto sector although trade was dominated by retail investors, who bought back cheap stocks in muted trade with many global markets closed for the holidays.</p>


<p>China stocks closed roughly flat on Wednesday, as gains in energy shares offset losses in small-cap shares, while the Hong Kong market was closed for a public holiday.</p>


<p>Russia attacked Ukraine's energy system and some cities with cruise and ballistic missiles plus drones on Wednesday in an "inhuman" Christmas Day assault, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.</p>


<p>The price of a litre of RON95 petrol will remain unchanged at RM2.05, while the retail price of RON97 will increase by three sen from RM3.22 per litre to RM3.25 per litre from Thursday to Jan 1, 2025.</p>


<p>Japan's Nippon Steel is seeing support for its proposal to acquire US Steel in the regions of the US where steel mills are located, Nippon Steel's President Tadashi Imai told reporters on Wednesday.</p>
