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Bursa to remain softer next week Posted: 19 Apr 2013 07:34 PM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content]Against the backdrop of a slowdown in global growth, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) is expected to trade softer and within a tight range of between 1,680 points and 1,700 points next week. Affin Investment Bank vice-president/head of retail research Dr Nazri Khan said the local market would continue to remain volatile in the absence of market moving factors at home and abroad. "Bursa is likely to copy regional weaknesses after the International Monetary Fund cut the global growth outlook which saw commodity prices falling on concerns over weaker demand. "We believe the local equity market may have a choppy time as investors price in concerns over the weaker prospects for global economic growth," he told Bernama. Given the strong foreign inflow of funds and higher cash holdings of domestic institutional funds, Nazri said the impending general elections would offer modest bargain hunting activity and this should prevent the FBM KLCI from falling below the 1,700 points support level. On a Friday-to-Friday basis, the benchmark FBM KLCI ended 7.75 points higher at 1,706.28 as the underlying sentiment still remained intact. The Finance Index soared 83.91 points to 15,983.9, the Plantation Index rose 28.7 points to 8,143.24 and the Industrial Index added 3.83 points to 2,902.47. The FBM Emas Index gained 40.63 points to 11,667.64, FBM Mid 70 increased 13.8 points to 12,931.44 but the FBMT100 slipped 6.23 points to 11,449.02 and the FBM Ace Index dropped 64.39 points to 3,986.29. Weekly turnover declined to 4.187 billion shares, worth RM8.264 billion, from last week's 5.535 billion shares valued at RM9.124 billion. Main market volume fell to 3.475 billion shares, worth RM8.165 billion, from 4.674 billion units, valued at RM9.01 billion, registered last week. The ACE market volume eased to 542.592 million shares, worth RM78.377 million, from 656.884 million shares, valued at RM91.183 million, recorded in the previous week. Warrants decreased to 160.796 million shares, worth RM14.687 million, against last week's 191.441 million units valued at RM14.622 million.-- Bernama

Ringgit likely to move within tight range Posted: 19 Apr 2013 07:40 PM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content]The ringgit is expected to see range-bound trading next week in the absence of both local and external market moving factors, dealers said. The local currency is likely to move between 3.015 and 3.050 next week versus the greenback next week. "Investors will probably choose to remain on the sidelines ahead of the general elections," he said, adding that aggressive ringgit trading would pick perhaps after polling. He predicted that the local currency would recover lost ground and appreciate strongly if the present government receives a fresh mandate to rule the country in the forthcoming elections on May 5. Regionally, the ringgit market would closely watch the brittle US economy, as well as, new monetary policies by the Bank of Japan. Meanwhile, Kenanga Research said with the shift in investments back to US denominated assets, along with the uncertainty in the global economy, the ringgit would remain volatile and trade within 3.03 and 3.15 in the next three to six months. "However, on the expectation that the economy is to improve in the second half of this year, there is still room for the ringgit to appreciate in tandem with better economic prospects in the region," it added. Hence, Kenanga said its year-end target still remained at 2.9 against the US dollar. Throughout the week, the ringgit traded sideways but on Wednesday it led gains among emerging Asian currencies as the yuan rallied to a record-high and ended the week slightly higher at 3.0340/0370 from 3.0375/0405 previously. Meanwhile, the ringgit was mixed against other major currencies. It was marginally lower against the Singapore dollar at 2.4559/4597 from 2.4540/4566 last Friday but appreciated against the yen to 3.0591/0624 from 3.0657/0690, previously. It appreciated against the British pound to 4.6602/6657 from last Friday's 4.6665/6723 but fell against the euro to 3.9715/9763 from 3.9682/9724 previously.-- Bernama

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Boston Marathon bombing suspect dead, police hunt second man - Reuters Posted: 19 Apr 2013 09:03 AM PDT By Scott Malone and Tim McLaughlin WATERTOWN, Massachusetts | Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:17pm EDT (Reuters) - Police killed one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing in a shootout and mounted house-to-house searches for a second man on Friday, with much of the city under virtual lockdown after a bloody night of shooting and explosions in the streets. Authorities cordoned off a section of the suburb of Watertown and told residents not to leave their homes or answer the door as officers in combat gear scoured a 20-block area for the missing man, who was described as armed and dangerous. Officials identified the hunted man as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, and said the dead suspect was his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26. The fugitive described himself on a social network site as a minority from southern Russia's Caucasus, which includes Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and other predominately Muslim regions that have seen two decades of unrest since the fall of the Soviet Union. Boston came to a virtual standstill after authorities urged everyone to stay at home. Public transportation throughout the metropolitan area was suspended, and air space was restricted. Universities including Harvard and M.I.T. and public schools were closed. In Watertown, the lockdown cleared the streets for police. Waves of officers descended upon the town, racing from one site to the next where they believed the suspect might be hiding. Officers periodically barked orders at reporters to move back. The events stunned the leafy suburb, a wooded former mill town that has a large Russian-speaking community. During the night, a university police officer was killed, a transit police officer was wounded, and the suspects carjacked a vehicle before leading police on a chase that led to one suspect being shot dead. Police destroyed what they believed to be live ordnance in a number of controlled explosions throughout the morning. Police were searching for the younger Tsarnaev, previously known only as Suspect 2, who was shown wearing a white cap in surveillance pictures taken shortly before Monday's explosions and released by the FBI on Thursday. "We believe this to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. "We believe this to be a man who has come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody." The older brother, previously known as Suspect 1, who was seen wearing a dark cap and sunglasses in the FBI images, was pronounced dead. The FBI on Thursday identified the men as suspects in the twin blasts believed caused by bombs in pressure cookers placed inside backpacks left near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The blasts killed three people and wounded 176 in the worst attack on U.S. soil since the suicide hijacking attacks of September 11, 2001. INTERNET POSTINGS The brothers had been in the United States for several years and were believed to be legal immigrants, according to U.S. government sources. Neither had been known as a potential security threat, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said Friday. A Russian language social networking site bearing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's name paid tribute to Islamic websites and to those calling for Chechen independence. The author identified himself as a 2011 graduate of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a public school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He said he went to primary school in Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, a province in Russia that borders on Chechnya, and listed his languages as English, Russian and Chechen. His "World view" was listed as "Islam" and his "Personal priority" as "career and money." He posted links to videos of fighters in the Syrian civil war and to Islamic web pages with titles such as "Salamworld, my religion is Islam" and "There is no God but Allah, let that ring out in our hearts." He also had links to pages calling for independence for Chechnya, a region of Russia that lost its bid for independence after two wars in the 1990s. STEP BY STEP About five hours after the FBI released the surveillance pictures showing the two men near the bombing site on Thursday, a university police officer was shot and killed on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Middlesex County District Attorney said in a statement. A short time later, police received reports of a carjacking by two men who kept their victim inside the car for about half an hour before releasing him, the statement said. Police pursued that car to Watertown, where explosives were thrown from the vehicle at police and shots were exchanged, the statement said. "During the exchange of the gunfire, we believe that one of the suspects was struck and ultimately taken into custody. A second suspect was able to flee from that car and there is an active search going on at this point in time," said Colonel Timothy Alben, superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police. The wounded suspect was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he died with multiple injuries including gunshot wounds and trauma that may have been caused by an explosion, said Dr. Richard Wolfe, chief of emergency medicine. (Additional reporting by Mark Hosenball, Alex Dobuzinskis, David Bailey, Peter Graff; Writing by Daniel Trotta; Editing by David Storey and Doina Chiacu)

Cops Have Clear Image of Potential Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect - ABC News Posted: 19 Apr 2013 07:30 AM PDT Authorities have a clear picture of a potential suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings and are in the process of identifying that individual, sources told ABC News today. ABC News' Boston affiliate WCVB reported surveillance video taken from cameras at Lord & Taylor along the marathon route were key to spotting the individual in question. Other news organizations recently reported a suspect already had been taken into custody, but both the Boston Police Department and the FBI said no one has been arrested in connection with the bombing. In the midst of the conflicting reporting, a federal courthouse in Boston was evacuated because of a bomb threat, a source with the U.S. Marshals told ABC News. As of this report, no suspicious devices have been found there. COMPLETE COVERAGE: Terror at the Boston Marathon Boston Marathon Bomb Made From Pressure Cooker A pair of blasts erupted Monday afternoon near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 170 others. Authorities said they have been analyzing thousands of photos of the event and tracking down as many leads since the bombing. Tuesday ABC News reported part of a pressure cooker bomb had been recovered from the scene with wires, shrapnel and a circuit board. A Fagor brand pressure cooker like the one used in the attack can be bought from major retail outlets for around $140. Investigators said there was not enough evidence to determine if the second bomb was also made from a pressure cooker. PHOTOS: Evidence at the Boston Marathon Bomb Site The evidence has been sent to FBI's lab in Quantico, Virginia, where law enforcement sources said the parts could provide a break in the case. Investigators will use every clue, from the pressure cooker's manufacturer and retailers to the types of nails used in the shrapnel, to try and find out from where the bomb parts were purchased and by whom, the sources said. Richard Clarke, former White House counter-terrorism advisor and now ABC News consultant, said that while pressure cooker IEDs have been found in Afghanistan and Pakistan, that doesn't necessarily point to foreign involvement, as the pots are so widely available and instructions for how to build the bombs are easily accessed online by anyone. "It doesn't tell you much about who did it... But it does give you a lead perhaps of where it came from," Clarke said. "They [investigators] may be able to trace back a pressure cooker." Along with tracking down the origin of the bomb parts, authorities are painstakingly going through hundreds of pictures and videos from the site of the bombing, hoping, as Clarke put it, to "stitch" together a picture of what exactly happened. It was possibly during this process that authorities identified the potential suspect spotted today. Despite more than 48 hours passing without a suspect named, Clarke said he's confident the authorities will get their man. "It may take a while, but this will be solved," he said. Have a tip related to this or another investigation? CLICK HERE to send it in.

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