KUALA LUMPUR, April 9 -- Have you experienced an unexpected increase in your monthly expenses or are you running over your monthly budget? What would be the first thing you would do, amid rising costs resulting from the US-Iran war?

Research unit Rakuten Insight's latest April survey showed that fewer Malaysians would choose "delay a big purchase" as the number one option when compared to March - they've already been doing it.

According to Rakuten Insight's Malaysia Cost Pressure Pulse (MCPP) survey, 15.3 per cent of respondents in March chose "delay a big purchase" as their first response, as compared to 8.6 per cent in April.

"The things Malaysians could post back, they already have. There is nothing left in the pipeline to defer," R...