Indeks BSKL mula turun setelah Mahathir menyudahkan ucapan kemerdekaan 31 Ogos lalu. Selepas itu ia menggelongsor tak sudah-sudah sehingga mencecah dibawah 700. Tiba-tiba ia naik kembali sebaik sahaja Mahathir pulang dari CAMUS tempoh hari. Ketika itu tidak ada berita positif, kecuali kata-kata manis belanjawan akan berlebihan (surplus) sahaja. Kita cuba perhatikan begitu BANYAK fakta yang benar yang memberi kesan negatif tiba-tiba dapat "dikalahkah" oleh satu dua ucapan pemimpin negara yang merasa ekonomi berkembang positif.

Tahun ini sahaja pelbagai skandal dan isu telah merosakkan maruah negara:

Negatif

1. Ucapan biadap Mahathir 31/08/2000
2. Anwar dihukum walaupun saksi tercemar dan ada alibi.
3. Kenyataan Datuk Shafei - tiada bantahan sampai sekarang!
4. Lee Kuan Yew temu mata dengan Mahathir (tapi masih degil juga)
5. Tajuddin Ali tolak tawaran CEO
   
6. Jamaluddin Jarjis, pengerusi mula berdiri atas kerusi
7. Skandal Halim Saad Hottick NSC Rm3 billion
8. Skandal Lesen Terbang
   
9. Fatwa Syaikh Taha
   
10. ISNA tarik balik jemputan
    
11. Royalti ditarik Balik
    
12. Proton cari rakan kongsi
    
13. MAS cari rakan kongsi
    
14. Harga Minyak Naik 10sen/liter
    
15. MAS naikkan tambang
    
16. British Airways tinggalkan KLIA
    
17. Morgan Stanley guna formula baru
    
18. Gambar Mahathir berpeluk dengan Castro tersebar di akhbar US
19. Singapura beli senjata perang "fire and forget"
20. Kes Rogol, liw4t dan bunuh menjadi-jadi.
21. Halim Saad beli saham Time Telekom
22. Wanita Umno menangis VS Putri Umno
23. Kempen Gore VS Bush dan harga minyak
24. Demo Paip Gas Songkhla: Petronas tidak mesra alam
25. Bakun ingin dihidupkan semula.
    
26. Ezam bongkar perompak 10billion wang negara
27. Fatwa dari Dr Yusuf Qardhawi???
    
28. Debat PAS-UMNO? (belum apa-apa dah nak lari?)
29. Fobia pakaian sekolah ugama, oleh MB bermandi darah.
30. Skandal Putrajaya - (ambil jangan tanya?)

Perhatikan permainan saham pada hari belanjawan:

1517 [Dow Jones] MALAYSIA: OCBC Investment Research says Composite Index outperformed regional markets by 13%-22% in last two weeks but 76% of gains came from top 10 index heavyweights supported by institutional funds and not from broad-based gains; "buying support came largely from EPF, PNB and Khazanah while participation from foreigners was extremely low." Expects funds to take profit on big caps before year-end, especially in view of MSCI's proposed free-float weighting methods. Malaysia's free float of 30% low compared with other markets.(VGB) - Yahoo Dow Jones 3:17pm report

1557 [Dow Jones] MALAYSIA: Composite Index down 0.7% at 790.49 in cautious trade; investors largely sidelined in minutes before release of 2001 budget, says trader. Expects index to have mild reaction to budget as volume thin with many investors away for long weekend.

Likely government-linked and institutional funds will provide buying support in index-linked stocks; says index likely trade in 785-795 range. Volume now 106 million shares worth MYR283.4 million; with falls beating rises 280 to 216 while 165 unchanged and 344 untraded.(VGB)

1610 [Dow Jones] MALAYSIA: Finance Ministry's announcement country's external debt will rise 2.3% next year following declines of 2.6% this year and 0.6% in 1999 has some market observers speculating Malaysia could be laying groundwork for new sovereign bond issue.(NHW)

Bloomberg Article:

Malaysia mulls $1.3 billion bond issue:

Malaysia plans to spend about 5 billion ringgit ($1.3 billion) to bail out Kuala Lumpur's light rail, run by Renong Bhd. and other firms, in the nation's biggest such rescue, bankers involved in the transaction said.

Positif??

1. Moody upgrade (tapi bank terkebil-kebil mengigau Rm3 billion Halim Saad punya kerja)
2. Rafidah ke Korea, US, EU (balik masam muka ke?)
3. Pak Lah ke Jepun (nak kelentong jepun ke?)
4. Mahathir ke US (pujuk Motorola ke?)
5. Mahathir Ke Britain (kena katadua Tony Blair ke?)
6. Mahathir ke Brunei (cari duit ke?)
7. Mahathir ke Hong Kong (pujuk pakar ke?)

Sekian, untuk renungkan rakyat yang bijaksana. Sesungguhnya berita membawa makna.......