JAS To cut shares on issue — JAS will submit its capital decrease issue to the board tomorrow (12 Dec) via the repurchase of 106.85mn shares. This will increase its earnings per share by Bt0.30/share based on projected profits of Bt2 bn in 2012. JAS is also a candidate to be added to the SET50 […]

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Positive(s) 1. Thai NBTC gives the go-ahead to 3G licences, and the circus is finally over! We hope… 2. US econ added +146,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7% lowest since Dec ’08 3. Australia and Canada report better than expected job gains in Nov 4. German factory orders in Oct […]

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Lovely little column over @ the New Yorker The way Buffett runs his company, Berkshire Hathaway, which owns more than eighty other companies outright, is similarly out of tune with the times. In the current stereotype of corporate acquirers, firms like Bain Capital load companies with debt, downsize their workforces, and strip them of assets. […]

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Originally published in the Bangkok Post 7.12.12 BuilderSmart Plc (BSM) was established on July 20, 1999 as BuilderSmart Distribution Centre Ltd. It manufactures and distributes high-quality building materials to the commercial, office and residential sector for interior designers, architects, contractors and developers. In October 2007, BuilderSmart Distribution Centre became a public limited company and changed […]

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Ok given that I do receive a silly amount of emails in the every morning regarding which Thai stocks have news accouncments we’ve decided here to compile and simply list it out b/c the majority of the news announcments are in the Thai papers. We’ll keep this going for as long as we feel its […]

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Notable Transactions Buy(s): E – Evolution capital, the Srichawala group and the founders of E recently joined up with, theres a story to be told here perhaps in  later post MINT – The founder puts more weight behind his own shares SIRI – The president buys the warrant (hence the lower price), I’ve told the […]

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