KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 (Bernama) -- Bursa Malaysia closed almost flat on Tuesday as buying interest rotated away from index heavyweights towards smaller-cap construction stocks, with sentiment affected by geopolitical uncertainty, said an analyst. At 5 pm, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) eased 0.39 of a point to 1,714.40 from Monday’s close of 1,714.79. The benchmark index opened 1.65 points lower at 1,713.14 and moved between 1,710.44 and 1,714.50 throughout the trading session. The broader market was almost evenly balanced, with decliners leading gainers 548 to 546, while 598 counters were unchanged, 1,107 were untraded and 25 were suspended. Turnover expanded to 4.13 billion units valued at RM3.14 billion from 3.60 billion units valued at RM2.45 billion on Monday.
India has launched a pilot programme enabling e-commerce payments through ChatGPT , in collaboration between the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) , Razorpay , and OpenAI . The initiative integrates Unified Payments Interface (UPI) —India’s fast payments network—with ChatGPT , allowing users to shop and complete transactions directly within the AI platform . The pilot uses UPI’s “reserve pay” feature, which lets users pre-authorize funds for specific merchants. Banking partners include Axis Bank and Airtel Payments Bank , while Tata Group’s Bigbasket is among the first e-commerce platforms onboard. Razorpay CEO Harshil Mathur said agentic AI payments would turn “AI assistants from simple discovery tools into full-fledged shopping agents.” OpenAI’s managing director Oliver Jay added that combining advanced AI with UPI’s trusted infrastructure could set a new global standard f...