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Of course, it is better than industry growth, but sentiment remains cautious in terms of the outlook, as we don\u2019t see massive new investments coming in,\u201d he told reporters after the group\u2019s AGM in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysts have largely guided for banks to face a muted second half of 2019 (2H19), given the softer macro climate, slowing loans growth and the cut in the Overnight Policy Rate in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AmBank CFO Jamie Ling acknowledged the challenges posed by trade developments that continue to weigh on Malaysia\u2019s export-driven economy.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/themalaysianreserve.com\/2019\/08\/01\/ambank-keeps-cautious-stance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/themalaysianreserve.com\/2019\/08\/01\/ambank-keeps-cautious-stance\/<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its group CEO Datuk Sulaiman Mohd Tahir&nbsp;(picture)&nbsp;said external developments, particularly news of the UK\u2019s exit from Europe (Brexit) and ongoing US-China trade tensions, have brought \u201ca holdback in terms of investment\u201d. \u201cWe see a tapering down in small businesses. Of course, it is better than industry growth, but sentiment remains cautious in terms of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[48,23,47,24],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-interestrates","tag-loans","tag-sme-loan-uk","tag-sme-sectors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}