{"id":4608,"date":"2009-06-26T23:05:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=4608"},"modified":"2009-06-26T23:05:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:05:52","slug":"2020-of-something-to-smile-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=4608","title":{"rendered":"[2020] Of something to smile about"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Coincident Index (CI), that measures the current economic activity, rose by 0.9% in April 2009 registered at 113.7 points. The increase of the index were contributed by real gross imports (0.7%), real sales in manufacturing sector (0.4%), Index of Industrial Production (0.2%) and real contributions in EPF (0.2%). The six-month smoothed growth rate of CI in April 2009 showed an improvement to -7.1% from -9.7% in March 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The Leading Index (LI) which monitor the economic performance in advance also increased in April 2009. The index grew by 2.0% to 162.5 points from 159.4 points recorded in the previous month. Main components that have contributed to the increase of index were real total trade of eight major trading partners (0.6%), real money supply, M1 (0.5%) and Bursa Malaysia industrial index (0.3%). The six-month smoothed growth rate of LI improved 4.3% in April 2009 compared to 0.6% in the previous month. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.my\/eng\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=393:malaysia-economic-indicators-leading-coincident-and-lagging-indices-april-2009-&amp;catid=48:malaysias-economic-indicators-&amp;Itemid=12\" target=\"_self\">Malaysia Economic Indicators &#8211; Leading, Coincident And Lagging Indices April 2009<\/a><\/em>. Department of Statistics. Accessed June 26 2009]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coincident Index (CI), that measures the current economic activity, rose by 0.9% in April 2009 registered at 113.7 points. The increase of the index were contributed by real gross imports (0.7%), real sales in manufacturing sector (0.4%), Index of Industrial Production (0.2%) and real contributions in EPF (0.2%). The six-month smoothed growth rate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-4608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-economic-indicator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions\/4610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}