Earlier today the local media report that the Ministry of Finance, Bank of Thailand and the Thai Bankers Association agreed to increased the Financial Institutions Development Fund fees from 0.4% to 0.47% for deposits (0.46% to fund FIDF debt and 0.01% to the Deposit Protection Agency). These new rates are expected to be implemented by […]
Read More →Latest thoughts from Ploy! She’s looking closely at the USD/THB rates seeing how its driving the SET Index and has updated her viewpoint on TOP and her latest pick BANPU! My opinion on the SET is relatively unchanged. If you have followed my comments here for a while, you may have noticed by now that […]
Read More →Notable transactions: BLAND – The owner is still buying up shares in his company. BANPU – Big sell by a stakeholder. SIRI – Even the executives there think that their stock has shot up too much, and yet we hear punters still believing that the stock should go to 3.
Read More →Over at my friend’s Ake’s website, www.chartingthailandeconomy.com, he put up a little graph showing a big downward revision for 2011 growth. Well look, the post-flood recovery progress begun in December 2011 with factories and industrial estates restarting and the government’s plan for rehabilitation (including the THB 350 bn flood reconstruction and water management plan) won’t […]
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