{"id":67382,"date":"2026-04-02T09:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/malaysia-bnm-growth-upgrade-and-stable-opr-support-myr-commerzbank\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:45:24","slug":"malaysia-bnm-growth-upgrade-and-stable-opr-support-myr-commerzbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/malaysia-bnm-growth-upgrade-and-stable-opr-support-myr-commerzbank\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: BNM growth upgrade and stable OPR support MYR \u2013 Commerzbank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-content-section\">\n<p>Commerzbank notes Bank Negara Malaysia raised its 2026 growth forecast to 4.0\u20135.0% on resilient domestic demand, with consumption and investment underpinned by wages, labour market strength and government support. BNM expects moderate inflation and assumes Brent at USD70\u201390, keeping the OPR at 2.75% for 2026.<\/p>\n<h2>Stronger growth outlook with steady policy<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;In its 2025 Annual Report, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) raised its 2026 growth forecast to 4.0\u20135.0% from 4.0\u20134.5% previously, citing resilient domestic demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BNM expects the Middle East conflict to add to inflationary pressures, though price growth is still projected to remain moderate at 1.5\u20132.5% this year, slightly above the government\u2019s 1.3\u20132.0% forecast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/rates-charts\/forecast\" data-fxs-autoanchor>outlook<\/a> assumes Brent crude prices in the USD70\u201390 range.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On monetary policy, BNM is expected to keep the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) unchanged at 2.75% for the rest of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With growth holding firm and inflation contained, the central bank is likely to remain on hold to preserve policy space, with rate cuts contingent on a material slowdown in growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>(This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commerzbank notes Bank Negara Malaysia raised its 2026 growth forecast to 4.0\u20135.0% on resilient domestic demand, with consumption and investment [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}