KUALA LUMPUR, May 11 (Bernama) -- Late selling pressure dragged Bursa Malaysia into negative territory at the close, reversing earlier gains as profit-taking in heavyweight banking and transportation counters dampen overall market sentiment. At 5 pm, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) eased 2.75 points to 1,745.31 from Friday’s close of 1,748.06. The benchmark index, which opened 5.94 points firmer at 1,754.0, moved between 1,744.99 and 1,754.0 during the trading session. Market breadth was positive with gainers leading losers 562 to 558. A total of 636 counters were unchanged, 897 untraded, and 12 suspended. Turnover increased to 4.20 billion units worth RM3.17 billion compared with 3.31 billion units worth RM3.00 billion on Friday.
The first universal rule of personal financial management is to spend less than what you have earn, but that alone is not enough. It is good for one to be able to control his or her own temptations from the materialistic world. However, as we know that the inflation actually drives a lot of things to become more expensive, hence living within means will not be sufficient. The next universal rule of personal financial management is to earn more. This one is a little bit more tricky than spending less than what you have earn especially for the working class because the salary is limited to what companies can offer. Even if this rule is not easy to apply to our life, we should really plan and think of the ways to earn more. There are reasons why earning more is important, in fact, it is as important as the rule number one which is to spend less than what you earn. Companies which are focusing on cost control will doom to fail in the future because there is no growth in the compa...