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Gloves are off: Malaysian makers warn hospitals of price hikes, output cuts

South China Morning Post · · 199 words · By Reuters
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open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3350554/hospitals-face-glo…

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3 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Glove makers have already hiked the average price of synthetic rubber gloves by around 40 per cent to as high as US$29 for a box of 1,000, according to Oong Chun Sung, an equity research analyst at CIMB Securities.”
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Two separate web search results cite the exact claim, attributing the information to Oong Chun Sung of CIMB Securities regarding a 40% price hike to US$29 for a box of 1,000 synthetic rubber gloves.
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web search NEUTRAL — Glove makers have already hiked the average price of synthetic rubber gloves by around 40% to as high as $29 for a box of 1,000, according to Oong Chun Sung, an equity research analyst at CIMB ...
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/iran-war-spurs-ru…
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web search NEUTRAL — Glove makers have already hiked the average price of synthetic rubber gloves by around 40 per cent to as high as US$29 (S$37) for a box of 1,000, according to Mr Oong Chun Sung, an equity research ...
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/iran-war-spurs-rubber-glov…
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web search NEUTRAL — Robust demand for Malaysian gloves: CIMB Securities KUALA LUMPUR: CIMB Securities Research expects robust demand for Malaysian gloves due to the increase in US tariffs on gloves imported from China, b…
https://klse.i3investor.com/web/blog/detail/savemalaysia/202…
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“Sustained disruption to supply chains from the conflict could lead to glove shortages by late May, analysts at Malaysia’s RHB and CIMB Securities said.”
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The claim is directly supported by a web search result citing analysts at RHB and CIMB Securities predicting shortages by late May due to supply chain disruptions from the conflict.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The economy of Malaysia is an upper-middle income, newly industrialised, developing economy, which is relatively open and state oriented. It ranks as the 34th largest in the world in terms of nominal …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Malaysia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Islamic banking, Islamic finance (Arabic: مصرفية إسلامية masrifiyya 'islamia), or Sharia-compliant finance is banking or financing activity that complies with Sharia (Islamic law) and its practical ap…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking_and_finance
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is list of notable banks, sorted alphabetically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_(alphabetical)
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“Central to the problem is naphtha, a by-product of crude oil refining used to make plastics and other petrochemicals – the building blocks of everything from paint and polyester to kitchen containers and car parts.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Naphtha is a petrochemical raw material used in various industrial applications, including those related to plastics, solvents, and refining processes, consistent with the claim's description.
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web search NEUTRAL — Naphtha is used to dilute heavy crude oil to reduce its viscosity and enable/facilitate transport; undiluted heavy crude cannot normally be transported by pipeline, and may also be difficult to pump o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naphtha
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web search NEUTRAL — Naphtha, any of various volatile, highly flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures used chiefly as solvents and diluents and as raw materials for conversion to gasoline.
https://www.britannica.com/science/naphtha
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web search NEUTRAL — According to the classification proposed, the crude to chemicals refineries is considered the maximum level of petrochemical integration, where the processed crude oil is totally converted into petroc…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/naphtha-aromatics-refining-ro…
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