KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 5 (Bernama) -- Bursa Malaysia closed higher, buoyed by Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) decision to maintain the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) at 2.75 per cent, alongside positive cues from Wall Street. At 5 pm, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) rose 19.30 points, or 1.19 per cent, to 1,635.86 from Wednesday’s close of 1,616.56. The benchmark index opened 6.72 points higher at 1,623.28, and fluctuated between an intraday high of 1,642.44 and a low of 1,622.62 during the trading session. However, market breadth was negative, with losers outnumbering gainers 723 to 497, while 466 counters were unchanged, 1,075 untraded and 10 suspended. Turnover rose to 3.74 billion units valued at RM3.61 billion compared with yesterday’s 2.81 billion units valued at RM2.57 billion.
Maintain Hold with unchanged target price (TP) of RM0.210 Scomi Energy Services Bhd Highlights Following are the salient points from analyst briefing on last Friday. Oilfield revenue was up QoQ due to stronger chemical sales to Indonesia and Turkmenistan. On the other hand, weaker drilling activities in Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam had partially offset the positive impact. Overall, drilling activity was down significantly YoY with Drilling Fluid (DF) rig count declining by 37% to 34 rigs in Dec 15 since beginning of Jan 15. Cost-cutting initiative by the group started to bear fruit with its OPEX down to RM37.9m (-18%) in Q3FY16. The group expects to bring the costs down further through more outsourcing of non-core business functions (i.e. warehousing or logistics) and this would put the group in a stronger position to weather the current downturn in the O&G industry. Marine segment is expected to continue registering losses for the time being as majority of i...