KUALA LUMPUR: Growing external headwinds pushed the FBM KLCI back to a key support even as investors awaited the tabling of Budget 2020 on Friday and the outcome of US-China negotiations.
At 12.30pm, the local index had fallen 8.55 points to 1,550.24 amid a wider regional retreat on news that the US administration has imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials and added more Chinese companies to a trade blacklist, citing mistreatment of Uighur MUslims in China.
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