The recovery of the Malaysian economy: does the timber industry sector follow the same trend?

An important indicator of the dynamics of the economy and its day to day evolutions is the performance of stock exchanges market. In the case of Malaysia, the KL Composite Index shows that since the world economic downturn in early 2008, the Malaysian economy started to recover in March 2009 (Fig. 1), while most of the developed countries are now still struggling with their sluggish economies.