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Malaysian Finance Calendar: 31 August – 6 September 2026

RaymondRates.my4 min read

Thursday carries the week. Bank Negara's next OPR decision lands at 3pm, new petrol prices start at midnight, and US growth data lands that evening. Friday brings America's August jobs report. Five FD promos close first thing Monday.

Thu 3 Sep
OPR decision + new petrol price
BNM at 3pm, pump prices from 12.01am
Fri 4 Sep
US August jobs report
8.30pm MYT — the week's biggest global print
14
Bursa stocks go ex-dividend
spread across Wed, Thu and Fri

The week at a glance

Monday 31 August – Friday 4 September 2026 (all times MYT)Malaysia dataGlobalYour walletBursaMON 315 FD promosend todayTUE 1US JOLTSjob openings, 10pmWED 2Petrol priceset for next week5 stocksgo ex-dividendTHU 3THE BIG ONEBNM OPRdecision, 3pmNew pumpprices, 12.01amFRI 4US jobsreport, 8.30pm5 stocksgo ex-dividendSaturday and Sunday: nothing scheduled.
Thursday is the pivot: Bank Negara's rate decision and the new petrol price both land the same day. Monday and Friday carry the week's other two wallet-and-market events.
  • Bank Negara decides Thursday, 3pm. The OPR has held at 2.75% since July's meeting.
  • New petrol prices start the same day. 12.01am Thursday, set by Wednesday's announcement.
An illuminated Shell petrol station sign at night
The weekly float is announced Wednesday, effective 12.01am Thursday — this week, the same day Bank Negara decides on rates. · Photo: Unsplash

Last week's float round-tripped back to a familiar price — see how RON95 got back to RM3.82.

Bursa: 14 stocks go ex-dividend this week

Going ex-dividend this week (sen per share)Wed 2Johor Plantations1.10Thu 3Three-A Resources2.10Thu 3Duopharma Biotech1.50Fri 4Kitacon1.00Fri 4Petronas Chemicals6.00Fri 4Telekom Malaysia7.00Own it the day before. Nestle's dividend (80 sen, Wednesday) is left off — it would flatten this scale.6 of 14 stocks shown — smaller counters omitted for space.
Six of the fourteen, spread across Wednesday to Friday. Nestle's dividend (also Wednesday) is left off this chart — it is far bigger than every other payout this week and would flatten the scale.
  • Nestle is the standout, off-chart. An 80 sen interim dividend goes ex Wednesday — more than ten times the next payout.
  • Telekom Malaysia leads the regular chart. Its 7 sen dividend edges out Petronas Chemicals' 6 sen, both going ex Friday.
Five FD promos end Monday. Bank Negara meets Thursday with the OPR unchanged since July, so board rates don't move this week. But Affin's eFD/branch Smart Pricing, Alliance's Bangsar FD, AmBank's AmOnline eFD, RHB's 7 & 9-month campaign and OCBC's FD-i promo all end Monday — the first day of this week, not the last. Compare today's FD rates before they lapse.

What to watch

  • Tue 10pmUS JOLTS (job openings), July. The labour-demand read markets watch ahead of Friday's jobs report.
  • Thu 3pmBank Negara's OPR decision. The fifth of six MPC meetings scheduled this year.
  • Thu 8.30pmUS productivity and costs, revised. The second read on Q2 output per worker.
  • Fri 8.30pmUS Employment Situation, August. The month's headline jobs and unemployment numbers.
Not financial advice. General information as at 30 August 2026. Every date was verified against the publisher's own calendar — Bank Negara Malaysia, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, paultan.org and KLSE Screener's entitlement filings. Schedules can change without notice, so check the source before acting on a date. Rates.my holds no CMSA licence, issues no price targets, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.

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