CIMB Investment Bank regional rates and foreign exchange strategist Suresh Kumar Ramanathan says in an interview with BFM 89.9 that the 7.6% fiscal deficit arising from the RM60 billion stimulus package announced today will have no long-term significant impact.
“From a macro perspective, it looks large, but in times such as these, every country is blowing up its fiscal deficit,” he explains.
He notes that the market responded positively today to the announcement by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in the Dewan Rakyat.
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salak says
“… but in times such as these, every country is blowing up its fiscal deficit …”
Sounds like the BN government. Isn’t Najib’s brother in CIMB?
Makes you wonder what became of us because of the US Ponzi scam scheme. No less than the Governor of Bank Negara talks this way.