<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner>(Nov 11): Malaysia intends to launch a separate wholesale electricity market for large power consumers, including data centres, the New Straits Times reported.&nbsp;</div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner>The existing single-buyer market serving households, factories and commercial premises will stay the same, the newspaper said, citing Rumaizi Abdul Halim, director of market regulation and planning at Malaysia’s Energy Commission. The two markets will run under a single operator but details on how they would interact will be discussed later, he said on Tuesday.</div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner>The move underscores Malaysia’s efforts to deal with the potential fallout from its ambitious push to become a regional hub for data centres. The Southeast Asian country has attracted artificial intelligence investment from technology heavyweights, including Oracle Corp and Amazon.com Inc, while Alphabet Inc’s Google said last week that it plans to spend US$15 billion (RM61.12 billion) to expand data centre and cloud operations in Malaysia.</div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

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Malaysia intends to launch a separate wholesale electricity market for large power consumers, including data centres, the New Straits Times reported.

Malaysia to start electricity market for data centre operators

(Nov 11): Siemens Energy AG said profit margins will swell to as much as 22% by 2030 after the company more than doubled earnings last year on booming demand for gas turbines and power-grid equipment.

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VILNIUS (Nov 11): The Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia withdrew on Wednesday a flurry of alerts that had urged citizens to seek shelter against threats from unidentified drones entering from neighbours Russia or Belarus, officials and media said.

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Panda Eyes Group Bhd has signed an underwriting agreement with M&A Securities Sdn Bhd for the homegrown fashion retailer’s listing slated for January 2027.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 11): Poor-quality resurfacing works by contractors and utility companies have been identified as among the factors contributing to recurring damage to federal roads, necessitating repeated patching works.

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Asian currencies weakened on Wednesday as the US dollar firmed, while technology stocks in South Korea and Taiwan extended their recovery from a sharp selloff last week that left both markets nursing steep losses.

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MELAKA (Nov 11): Melaka Pakatan Harapan (PH) chairman Adly Zahari has described as slander a claim by Umno Supreme Council member Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Maslan that top DAP leaders are not conferred honorary titles such as "Datuk" because of the party's stance on the institution of the Malay Rulers.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 11): Japanese metal materials producer Mitsui Kinzoku is investing 190 billion yen (RM4.87 billlion) &nbsp;to construct a new copper foil plant in Malaysia, as it looks to ensure a stable supply amid rapid growth in the artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor markets.

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The recent sell-off in YTL Power International Bhd (KL:YTLPOWR) appears excessive as its colocation data centre business continues to support the group's valuation, said CGS International.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 11): Big Caring Group Bhd could see its already steep listing price soar higher, though longer-term value hinges on its expansion beyond retail, an analyst said.

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SKA Capital Bhd (KL:SKACAP) rose 19% in the electrical engineering firm’s debut on the ACE Market on Wednesday. &nbsp;

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(Nov 11) :&nbsp;Nvidia Corp.’s independent board members tapped a former top federal prosecutor to help probe chief executive officer Jensen Huang’s relationship with a suspected Chinese spy.&nbsp;

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Taxpayers who fail to settle outstanding taxes within six months and do not respond to notices from the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) may be barred from leaving the country, Deputy Finance Minister Liew Chin Tong said.

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Indonesia’s bourse more than quadrupled the number of stocks found with high shareholder concentration, as it sought to resolve MSCI Inc’s complaints about illiquidity and opaque ownership.

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Global bonds tumbled and the dollar stayed firm after a hot US inflation print and hawkish central bank rhetoric raised the risk of an outsized half-point rate hike from the Federal Reserve (Fed) next month, though stocks remained resilient.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 11): Malaysia's palm oil inventories are expected to start declining in the first quarter of next year as production growth slows from its seasonal peak.&nbsp;

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Andrea Kimi Antonelli, widely known in Formula One simply as Kimi, is the new king of F1.

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Malaysia will allow approved applicants under the SuRIA Home solar rebate programme until March 2027 to complete their installations and retain their rebates.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 11): The government said on Wednesday that at least four of Malaysia’s largest private hospital groups have expressed interest in joining MediAsas, the nation-backed medical insurance and takaful plan slated for nationwide rollout at the end of January 2027.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 11): The High Court has given the greenlight for former Lembaga Tabung Haji chairman Datuk Seri Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim to pursue his case against the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) for allegedly unilaterally cancelling a prior agreement of the settled payment of over RM4 million in tax and penalties.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 11): Mega Fortris Bhd (KL:MEGAFB) fell as much as 18.06% in Wednesday morning trade, prompting Bursa Malaysia to suspend intraday short-selling (IDSS) of the stock.

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(Nov 10):&nbsp;CoreWeave said on Tuesday that it would become profitable on an adjusted basis in the first half of 2028, as the AI cloud company sought to reassure investors that strong demand and customer commitments will support its debt-fueled expansion.

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Russia has effectively abandoned attempts to replace the dollar with China’s yuan under the pressure of US secondary sanctions, underlining the difficulties facing other nations looking for an alternative global currency.

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A minimum wage policy is meant to protect workers, irrespective of the industry they are employed in, to get decent monthly salaries. In Malaysia, that means everyone, including cleaners or sweepers, are entitled to at least RM1,700 monthly.

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Wall Street doubled down on wagers the Federal Reserve will need to lift rates more aggressively, with stocks and bonds falling as inflation worries spurred fresh warnings from officials.