NOBODY would have guessed that the daily trading volume record on Bursa Malaysia would be broken this year. When the Covid-19 crisis hit, most people were focused on the gloom and doom from the fallout of the pandemic. Bursa Malaysia’s trading volume and trading value hit a record 9.3 billion units and RM9.4bil on May 29. It is also not a one-day affair. There were 44 days when volumes were 50% to 100% higher than the average of Bursa Malaysia’s trading volume and values of 2.7 billion units and RM2.4bil respectively in the last two years. To be fair, it is not just a Malaysian phenomenon, a few other markets, for example those in the United States and Hong Kong also experienced
