Share prices on Bursa Malaysia continued to be broadly lower at midmorning today in line with its regional peers on sustained concerns over Spain's financial system, dealers said.
At 11.03 am, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) declined 5.22 points to 1,573.19 compared with Monday's close of 1,578.41.
The benchmark index, which opened 1.5 points lower at 1,576.91, touched a low of 1,572.53 in the early session.
Elsewhere, Japan's Nikkei 225 dropped 110.14 points to 8,514.76, Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 168.10 points to 18,785.53 and Singapore's Straits Times Index declined 20.94 points to 2,766.87.
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