KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's benchmark stock index rose as blue-chip stocks bounced back from profit-taking in early morning trade.
At 12.30pm, the FBM KLCI was up 5.53 points to 1,549.55 while the market breadth was nearly even with 480 gainers to 474 decliners and 461 counters unchanged.
The trading volume was 2.71 billion shares valued at RM1.32bil.
Leading blue chips included Kuala Lumpur Kepong rising 12 sen to Rm22.70, MISC adding 12 sen to RM7.78 and Tenaga climbing 16 sen to RM11.54
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