The Fed might have another 0.25% cut in the bag as housing slump continue and financial market credit crunch issue is far from stable. But with inflation is still a threat, I don't think Fed will cut it too low unless economy run into recession. If they really cut it too low, then it will send the USD to more fresh low and if USD did drop non-stop, if would create more uncertainty in global market as most of the trade and asset held is in USD denomination.
But over long term, there are some arguement that you don't cure the problem at all at the root with the rate cut, you just delay it, as inflation might haunt later on. This issue still debatable, only time will tell.
Back to local issue, BNM has no choice at all, by right, wtih high inflation currently, BNM needs to hike the interest rate to cool down the demand, but current domestic demand is not so strong, they don't want to risk it as it mean economy will be easily put into break with the hike. They rather take the risk of inflation rather than causing economy to slow down. We just come out the the 1997 recession and recover, they don't want out economy back to slow mode again which might mean a lot of problem domestically. Also, there is massive liquidity in the local banking system which means klibor rate will stay at low end for the near time.
Also, the recent inflation is not because of domestic demand driven but the root of raw material which is much harder to tackle.
With high inflation is coming and raw materials price surging, it is a bit high risk to buy those under-con with less reputable developers. When the raw materials price outshooting their cost, project will have high chance of being delayed and abandoned especially those bad track record developers. Our law is simply not protective enough for the buyers.
The government says there is no shortage of steel bars in the market, but why the heck is it at RM 300 a ton now, and that is
the developer is able to buy them, and the industry is at its peak production, so who is hoarding them and controlling the price?