21.   Government subsidiaries should be approved and the tight liquidity problem solved quickly, he said.

22.   Group managing director Abdul Rahim Hashim said in a statement the move is due to the general slowdown in the property sector and the tight liquidity situation.

23.   He acknowledged that tight liquidity pressures had resulted in the reduction of production operations and had even caused layoffs in cash-starved businesses.

24.   He added that tight liquidity and funding for the industrial sectors remain serious economic problems which next year must be solved.

25.   He said cost of funds was high due to tight liquidity in the domestic monetary system.

26.   However, it will be quite difficult for the local fund managers to push the KLCI to higher grounds due to the tight liquidity in the market.

27.   In addition tight liquidity in the property market and higher provision of bad and doubtful debts also affected the group.

28.   If that happens, what you will have is very tight liquidity.

29.   In addition, the secondary and primary bond market grounded to a halt with these steep increases in deposit rates and tight liquidity.

30.   In currency trading, the peso was fractionally weaker against the dollar in thin morning trading as some participants sold dollars amid relatively tight liquidity, dealers said.