Fixed Deposit (FD) rates of banks in Malaysia (March 2010)
In November 2009, I compiled a list of Fixed Deposit rates in Malaysia HERE. Recently, the Central Bank (Bank Negara) has increased the overnight interest rates, and this has caused our country’s FD rates to go up – but not by much.
Bank
1 month
3 months
6 months
9 months
12 [...]
The state of our local property market
The average price of a property in our country has risen dramatically over the past few years, including during recession period. This is even more obvious in prime locations such as Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Penang. A property bought 2 years ago in an OK location can easily worth 20-30% more now. And I won’t [...]
Fixed Deposit (FD) rates of banks in Malaysia (November 09)
In August, I compiled a list of Fixed Deposit rates in Malaysia HERE. Here’s the update for the month of November 2009.
Bank
1 month
3 months
6 months
9 months
12 months
Affin Bank
2.00
2.10
2.20
2.30
2.50
Alliance Bank
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
AmBank
2.00
2.10
2.20
2.20
2.50
Bangkok Bank
2.00
2.05
2.10
2.20
2.50
CIMB Bank
2.00
2.10
2.10
2.10
2.50
Citibank
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
EON Bank
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
Hong Leong Bank
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
HSBC Bank Malaysia
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
Maybank
2.00
2.10
2.10
2.10
2.50
OCBC Bank (M)
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
Public Bank
2.00
2.10
2.10
2.10
2.50
RHB Bank
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
Standard Chartered Bank (M)
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
The Bank [...]
Budget 2010 Real Property Gains Tax (RPGT)
Note: this post was written purely based on my personal opinions.
The Malaysia government has recently announced Budget 2010. To be honest, there are not much good news for this time’s budget. But whether there’s bad news or not, it is really up to you to decide.
Anyway, for this post, I will talk about one [...]
Fixed Deposit (FD) rates of banks in Malaysia (August 09)
In March, I wrote a post on the Fixed Deposit rates of the major banks in Malaysia HERE. Not much change since then. Here’s the update for the month of August 2009.
Bank
1 month
3 months
6 months
9 months
12 months
Affin Bank
2.00
2.10
2.20
2.30
2.50
Alliance Bank
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
AmBank
2.00
2.10
2.20
2.20
2.50
Bangkok Bank
2.00
2.05
2.10
2.20
2.50
CIMB Bank
2.00
2.10
2.10
2.10
2.50
Citibank
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
EON Bank
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
Hong Leong Bank
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
HSBC [...]