Malaysian central bank is playing a waiting game

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) left its policy rate unchanged at 3% today, as expected. There have been signs of a slowdown in the economy in early 2012, and low inflation gives BNM room to cut. We still expect BNM to loosen policy later in the year as the global economy loses momentum.

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