I’ve just been elected to the Board of LV Technology Plc (source:Â The Stock Exchange of Thailand : News Detail http://bit.ly/wikIqe) and I feel truly honoured. In my short career I’ve been lucky enough to analyse businesses, financial re-structurings, invest publicly, invest privately, manage a company of 400 employees, sit on the board of a private […]
Read More →The SET continues its remarkable start to the year, up 7.4% in local currency terms with the Agro & Food Industry sector leading the way due mainly to CPF expecting to have a fantastic 1Q12 earnings result. Going forward we’re looking at the continuing recovery of the industrials sector and turnaround in the resources sector.
Read More →Notable transactions: BGH – The President continues to buy a massive amount of shares TTA – The Mahagitsiri family is a new majority shareholder SIRI – The President has now accumulated over 120 mil shares in the past month TPC – Shareholders selling their company to SCC
Read More →Not much has been written about the upcoming AEC in 2015 when ASEAN is going to be more integrated. There are three interesting news articles that came to my attention that companies are starting now in anticipation of this. When talking to friends in the manufacturing business, the majority are looking forward to it as […]
Read More →Recently Exxon Mobil (EM) sold 99% Exxon Mobil Yugen Kaisah (EMYK) to Tonen General (TG) in Japan. What we see here is simply that EM is continuing its broadbased strategy to reduce its stake in the downstream business and focus more upon the upstream petroleum business because of its better margins. This has an impact […]
Read More →Sony (digital cameras) has recently moved its largest camera production site in the world out of the Hi-Tech Industrial Estate in Bang Pa-in, Ayutthaya province to its facility in Amata Nakorn, Chonburi. It is also planning to build a new production plant at Amata Nakorn. NEC TOKIN Electronics (Thailand) Co Ltd located at Navanakorn Industrial […]
Read More →Ploy has returned from her two week vacation and has graced us with her latest thoughts on the market. Enjoy! While I was away, the US dollar index reached the Y-resistance in the chart and has backed down ever since. I stated previously that the breakout above the Y-resistance (which was above 82.20-82.40 then) would […]
Read More →Notable transactions: The President of Bangkok General Hospitals (BGH) bought another USD 1.5 mn (total USD3.5 mn over 2 weeks) worth of shares in the company, fyi their business model over the past few years has been to simply acquire hospitals all over Thailand. BLA has seen its owners selling out of shares over the […]
Read More →In January the SET Index performed extremely well and far above what we expected, unlimited funding for bankrupt countries with only 1% funding has seen liquidity pile into equity markets globally. The Thai Banking sector has underperformed because of the unclear deposit – B/E charges for the FIDF debt repayment issue.
Read More →UBS put out an extremely good paper demonstrating where the growth areas are in Thailand. In summary it shows how the provinces have grown far faster than Bangkok city in the past 15 years primarily due to manufacturing becoming a more prominent part of the economy here. This merely proves what a lot of us […]
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