Kuala Lampur, April 3 -- Moody's Investor Service today reduced Malaysia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) outlook to 4.4 per cent for this year, and 4.3 per cent for 2020.

This is a further reduction from its January report, in which it expected the country's GDP growth to slow down to 4.7 per cent and 4.5 per cent for the respective annum.

However, the firm's vice president and senior analyst Anushka Shah said that Malaysia's economic growth is relatively strong.

"So in Malaysia for example, growth slowed last year and what we expect is that the trend will slow this year as well.

"So we're expecting 4.4 per cent growth in 2019, 4.3 per cent in 2020 for Malaysia.

"And that growth performance is still actually relatively strong when you...