ThaiCapitalist Commentary
I just noticed a large increase in visits to this site…most of you were sent to this link http://www.thaicapitalist.com/2011/10/thank-yous/ where I thanked Howard Woon for allowing me to interview his clients of Shareinvestor Thailand for the Bangkok Post. If you hadn’t realised, its because of Shareinvestor Thailand that it is so easy to find public information about […]
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Read More →Yesterday the THAI board announced the “termination of employment” or in plain english  the firing of Dr. Piyasvasti. The reason according to the Chairman K. Ampon is “Not that he is an incapable president. But so far, there has been poor unity in communications between him and the board of directors. To achieve THAI’s earning […]
Read More →Ploy has a bearish outlook for the SET for the time-being, whilst she thinks there may be a rebound this week, she expects things to worsen further on a technical basis. Nothing can stop the SET from, errr, falling now. This is not the right time to buy more stocks in hope to average down […]
Read More →How quickly the picture changes, just last month everyone was on full-on buying mode while we were sitting here twiddling our thumbs and waiting for a chance to re-enter into the market. Going forward expect the same news Euro crisis, US slowing down, China slowing down w/ the premier saying that they’ll will hit their […]
Read More →The SET Index is down some -7% this month with several stocks falling much further and yet last month all I could see filling up my mailbox was buy buy buy, hold….look I’m not against sell-side research at all, I use it to see data points and if there is anything interesting about a company […]
Read More →1Q12 GDP just released this AM, growing + 0.3% YoY vs consensus -0.5% YoY, and up +11% QoQ. Just briefly consensus estimates for the year are as follows: GDP Growth: 5.5-6.5 % Inflation: 3.5%-4.0% My thoughts? Nice quick recovery from the disastrous 4Q11 where Thailand was economically devastated by the floods. We’ll go through the […]
Read More →Lots of buying in the past week! Notable transactions: Buy: BLAND – K. Anant is having a good time yet again with his stock price, watch him keep buying and then sell about 0.70 again. ERW – A company I think is stupid cheaply on an NAV basis (Bt. 5.5/share is our estimate) but until […]
Read More →Just a quick fyi before I run out of the office. MSCI announced this morning their update to be used in the calculation of the MSCI Global Standard and Global Small Cap shares that will be effective as of 31 May 2012. MSCI Thailand Index Addition: SCC MSCI Thailand Index for Global Small Cap. Additions: BLA, EARTH, SC, SF Removals: HMPRO, SCCC, MAKRO, TSTH and TUF Source: MSCI
Read More →Anyone else feel that the Thai market has been acting odd the past two days? Down some -25 pts on Monday to rebound back +19 pts on Tuesday. Looks like the prop traders are having a ball with this volatility.
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