Guan Eng questions Bank Negara’s rationale for OPR hike

DAP chairman Lim Guan Eng has questioned Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) recent decision to increase its overnight policy rate (OPR) by 25 basis points to 3%.

In a statement, he said if BNM was concerned about headline and core inflation, it should have raised the OPR in January and March 2023, when inflation for the final quarter of 2022 was higher.