Market commentary on Thai stocks and the SET Index.
With the market only up 2.9% YTD and sectors performing incredibly different across the board, we feel the SET has finally become a stock pickers market again versus the past few years when essentially every sector and company just kept moving up and down together (ex energy of course). Interesting to note is that only […]
Read More →With traffic worse than normal given a few roads being blocked off around Bangkok and protestors making the walk from Lumpini to Government House as off the time of writing (mind you there doesn’t look like there are many at all) we’ve been thinking aloud for the past few months that August wouldn’t be a […]
Read More →So politics is coming back to the forefront of the news headlines, its been building up over the past few weeks and with the Internal Security Act invoked a few days ago, market participants have become more worried. We’ve also heard that Mr. T is becoming more and more agigtated and desperately wants to return […]
Read More →So a plethora of economic news regarding Thailand has come out over the past week and it all has pointed to the same direction which is a slowdown in growth for the country So a quick summary of whats happened: Retailers are revising down growth targets across the board (Bangkok Post) Agriculture – growth expected […]
Read More →Well its been a another difficult week and essentially we think the market is worried about the upcoming political noise next month with the amnesty bill (i.e. Thaksin trying to come back to Thailand) looking to be discussed by the House on 7th August as well as the “People’s Army” threatening to hold rallies on […]
Read More →Last week was another volatile week for the market with the SET rising some 4% on Thursday to ensure the market was flat for the week.
Read More →Notable Transactions Buy(s): THB 2 bn CGD – This is interesting, this is a massive buy back by the family members (THB 1.8bn), not sure what the story is at these levels. NWR – Been a wonderful construction co play since the end of last year. TASCO – MD buys shares Sell(s): THB 837mn Forth […]
Read More →Well its a question we’ve been asking for a while, so last week we decided to take a quick a look at how the sector weightings have changed since the end of ’07 and its quite surprising. In the past we’ve always taken for granted that Resources were the biggest weighting in the SET, however […]
Read More →Market finished strongly at the end of the last week with continued strong fund foreign fund flows, this combined with China’s massive numbers, the BOJ aiming to boost inflation to 2% and Thailand’s 3Q12 GDP number’s coming out strongly all helped.
Read More →Market had a so-so second week with news that Temasek was selling off half of its stake in INTUCH which depressed the tech sector, industrials went on a rampage with the expected news of good land sales by both hemraj and amata and ticon selling another tranche of assets to its property fund. Going forward […]
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