Sentiment Index - Malaysia Stock Market

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Intraday Oscillator: Local sentiment reversed into negative tone as the key index gave back yesterday's gains. The Oscillator slid to finish at -134.89 lost 130.10 compared to its opening point at -4.79. The Average recorded as -120.39; lost 102.20 compared to -18.18 of the previous session.

MSCD: After today’s market, %K hooked downwards and the Histogram printed a slightly shorter bar in the positive zone.

MSCD data are appended as below:
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DATE	A_OSC	%K	%D	%A	HGM
12/17/2012	-166.75	-70.38	-88.14	-95.65	21.75
12/18/2012	17.47	-56.87	-80.31	-91.54	22.09
12/19/2012	19.72	-45.09	-72.90	-87.49	23.23
12/20/2012	-18.18	-40.95	-68.84	-84.97	24.16
12/21/2012	-120.39	-53.17	-72.66	-86.26	23.23
LAST+-	-102.21	-12.22	-3.82	-1.29	-0.93

Analysis: MSCD shows market strength has suffered a mild setback but the overall picture remains intact. The low volume shows selling is not intensive.

OSK wrote, "The near-term technical outlook of the FBM KLCI will be firmly bullish as long as it stays above the 1,595-pt level....From the current level, look for an immediate support at the 1,659-pt followed by 1,655 pts. " Today, FBMKLCI lost 11.75 pt to close at 1,658.85.

Note: Explanation on MSCD can be found under "Label" at the sidebar.