SE Asia Stocks-Major indexes weaken: Malaysia outperforms

摘要

Malaysian stocks rose to their highest in nearly 2-Vz years on Monday on optimism over domestic economic growth, while Southeast Asia's other big stock markets retreated on concerns over the global economy. Malaysia's main share index .KLSE ended up 0.8 percent at the highest since February 2008, helped by expectations second-quarter economic data on Aug. 18 will show the economy grew about 8.1 percent from a year earlier.