1.   Efforts to cool off the overheating Malaysian economy failed to offset overall pessimism about Asia, traders said.

2.   Far from wrecking the Malaysian economy, they say, the isolationist strategy has stabilized the country and put it on the road to recovery.

3.   In an effort to boost investor confidence in the Malaysian economy, the government said earlier this month it would postpone a number of big projects.

4.   It was quite a boon, however, to the then-depressed Malaysian economy.

5.   The move, however, may hurt the Malaysian economy and it attempts to open its financial markets, analysts said.

6.   The view that the Malaysian economy is fundamentally strong, and that rash pronouncements have exacerbated a damaging domino effect from Thailand, is widely shared here.

7.   With the Malaysian economy stabilizing and business slowing, he believed that there was nowhere for interest rates to go but down.

8.   Overdoing things or overdosing could make our region, and the Malaysian economy, go into a prolonged and unnecessary recession.

9.   Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was quoted Thursday as saying that managing the Malaysian economy is easier without having to argue with his jailed former finance minister.

10.   After a period of major macro-economic adjustments,the Malaysian economy can expect to bottom out and stage a gradualrecovery in the longer term.