At 9.05 am the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI level marker (FBM KLCI) was down 5.4 points at 1,542.55 from Wednesday's close of 1,547.95.
The index opened 1.49 eyes at 1,546.46.
It opens low in line with the overseas market if weakening sentiment has dented the appetite for investors.
In the broad market, traders saw losing counters outperform profit counters by 286 to 94, while 244 counters were also unchanged, 1,649 were not traded and 15 were hanged.
The total acquisition of 198.58 million units is worth RM94.34 million.
The note issued by Malacca Securities Sdn Bhd stated that the minutes of the message issued by the Federal Reserve (Fed) last night had made Wall Street markets weak and indirectly affected the sentiment of the local stock market.
In addition, the price of crude palm oil is at the level of RM5,000 a set while the price of crude oil is at a level exceeding US$80 a set.
Fair stocks saw Malayan Bnaking Bhd (Maybank) fall 3 cents at RM8.32, Public Bank Bhd down 1 cent at RM4.16, Petronas Chemicals Group Bhd down 6 cents at RM8.72, CIMB Group Holdings Bhd bud 2 cents at RM5 .45 while IHH Healthcare Bhd lasts rm6.86.
Active stocks saw NeXchange Trading down 1 cent at 83 cents, Opcom Holdings Bhd up 1 cent at 96 cents while Pasukhas Group Bhd and SMTrack Bhd held on to 2.5 cents and 26 cents, respectively.
On the index board, FBM Gold index was down 30.28 points at 11,219.47, FBM Shariah Gold was down 4.7 points at 12,067.42, FBM ACE was down 73.06 points at 6,610.88, FBM 70 buds 38.29 points at 14,328.72 and the FBMT 100 index was down 36.05 points at 10,900.82.
The Products and Services Industry Index fell 1.1 points at 201.26, the Financial Services Index declined 36.79 points at 15,676.1 and the Agriculture Index dipped 20.27 points at 6,634.15.
