Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Market Roundup | 5 June 2012

FBM30 1560.36           +5.18points (+0.33%)       Volume 638mil        Value 923mil      

1) KLCI rebounded inline with the regionals which rose on speculations euro policymakers and the G7 which are holding emergency talks tonight will take action to address the worsening crisis. Market also took positive from China's HSBC services May PMI which grew at the fastest pace in 19 months. Marker remain thinly traded with value traded falling below RM1bn.  Broader market was firmer with advancers leading losers 411:275. Futures closed 1557.5 (3 points discount).

2) Heavyweights: MAYBANK+0.7% RM8.66, IOICORP+1.20% RM5.06, CIMB+0.68% RM7.42, PBBANK+0.44% RM13.70, KLK+1.65% RM22.22, AIRASIA+2.56% RM3.60, MAXIS+0.96% RM6.33, YTL+1.08% RM1.88

3) DBT: DBE 8.5mil @ RM0.075 (1.3% PUC), TFP 6.9mil @ RM0.08 (4.9% PUC, 53% discount), CBSA 5mil @ RM0.425 (6.25% premium)

4) Situationals:
ARMADA-1.27% RM3.90: Share price fell and ended at its day's low despite announcing at midday, That its subsidiary has been awarded a charter contract by Momentum Engineering (LLC) Turkmenistan to lay approximately 15km of various size pipelines in the Caspian Sea. The contract is for 30days commencing in June. This increase its orderbook to over RM7bn .

5) O & G
Petronas, which is embarking on the first commercial floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility in Malaysia, has awarded the contract to a consortium comprising Technip France SA, Technip Geoproduction (M) Sdn Bhd and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd. The contract was for the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) of the project. The facility will be moored about
180 km off the coast of Bintulu, Sarawak, and is designed to produce 1.2 million tonnes a year (mtpa) of LNG. This could benefit Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering  as it has Joint Venture Agreement with Technip Geoproduction (M) Sdn Bhd ("TPGM") for the establishment of a jointly controlled entity, to be known as Technip MHB Hull Engineering Sdn Bhd ("TMH"), that will perform hull engineering services on floating structures for the oil and gas industry. +ve

6) Market - Current jittery thin trading conditions to continue as no solutions are yet in the immediate horizon to fix the Euro debt problem.