Malaysia Airlines shares lose 10% over missing jet EmailPrint

March 10, 2014 | 14:41

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Malaysia Airlines shares lost 10 per cent on Monday, the first trading day since the company was rocked by the weekend disappearance of a passenger jet with 239 people aboard.

A Malaysia Airlines crew member stands at an empty ticket counter at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang.
(AFP/Manan Vatsyayana)

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines shares lost 10 per cent on Monday, the first trading day since the company was rocked by the weekend disappearance of a passenger jet with 239 people aboard.

The shares were trading at 0.225 ringgit, or 10 per cent lower, mid-morning on the Malaysian stock exchange.

Flight MH370 went missing over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing early Saturday. No confirmed evidence of the plane's fate has yet been found.

AFP

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