KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia rebounded from last week’s losses to open higher on fresh buying support today, while tracking the positive performance of Wall Street last Friday, dealers said. At 9.05 am, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) was 7.47 points higher at 1,827.29, after opening 5.61 points better at 1,825.43. "On the local front, the FBM KLCI could trend higher around 1,840 on the back of positive sentiment from the US stock markets. The Industrial Index rose 11.62 points to 3,232.98 and the Finance Index jumped 76.18 points to 17,532.65 and the Plantation Index added 7.43 points to 7,953.46. Among actives, PUC and AirAsia X gained one sen each to 24 sen and 40 sen respectively, P.A Resources, Diversified Gateway and UMW OIL rose half-a-sen each to 8.5 sen, nine sen and 31 sen respectively.

Source: New Strait Times February 12, 2018 01:52 UTC