Commentary on special events in Thailand and the SET Index.
PTG Energy PCL (SET:PTG) President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Pitak Ratchakitprakarn discusses the company’s strategy and outlook in The Executive Talk (TET) by ShareInvestor.com. TET: How many stations does PTG have today and how has the business been performing? Today, we have 1,609 stations and are continuing to expand at a rate of 300 […]
Read More →Been a while since I’ve had a random thought, nothing has really interested me until something in the news this afternoon, so here’s a quick, poorly organised, 10-minute thought. I’ve been of the viewpoint that the military is working towards setting up their own political party to win the upcoming elections – whenever this may […]
Read More →Sitting here I was wondering what really drove the market to be +11% or so in local currency terms and here you go, AOT and PTT represented 1/3 of the move this year whereas GL and TRUE have had the biggest negative impact thus far. Data Source: Bloomberg
Read More →From the news I’ve been reading the past week or so these are the upcoming changes to the FTSE Indices FTSE SET Large Cap Index-Add: EA FTSE SET Mid Cap Index-Add: BGRIM, ORI, PRM, RATCH, RS, TOA FTSE SET Shariah Index-Add: AIT, AMARIN, BAFS, EKH, FN, GGC, HFT, LST, PRM, SEAFCO, SRICHA, TOA, TPIPP, UVAN […]
Read More →Given that its a relatively short commentary from Bill Gross I’ve decided to post it all here. The content is a continuation of his thinking for the past few years that assets are overpriced and at one point it will change. 1. Prior market tops (1987, 2000, 2007, etc.) allowed asset managers to partially […]
Read More →Fresh from the headlines of brokers this morning. FTSE SET large cap index (+) EA FTSE SET mid cap index (+) BGRIM, ORI, PRM, RATCH, RS, TOA FTSE SET Shariah index (+) AIT, AMARIN, BAFS, EKH, FN, GGC, HFT, SEAFCO, SRICHA, TOA, TPIPP, UVANÂ Date to be applied : 15th Dec Effective: Monday, 18th Dec
Read More →The key changes as of 30 Nov ’17 are as follows: MSCI GLOBAL STANDARD INDEXES THAILAND + none / – 1 (-) BEC MSCI GLOBAL SMALL CAP INDEXES THAILAND +5 / -6 (+) BEC, GGC, ORI, VNT & WHA (-) AIRA, GPSC, NYT, SCN, STPI, THRE
Read More →In light of the continuing amazing performance coming out of BEAUTY, I thought I may as well as share this 2 week old post from Bloomberg. The Bangkok-based firm plans to tap China’s $4.3 billion beauty sector for the next leg of expansion, after building a network of more than 300 retail outlets in Thailand […]
Read More →A few weeks ago I mentioned that it was coming to the time of the year where brokers were going to be talking about LTF/RMF buying and on point its beginning. I have been wondering for the past few years whether or not the LTF buying has been having the impact that brokers/research houses are […]
Read More →Exports are rocking So despite all the news that the THB is strengthening too quickly exports are continuing to climb for Thailand and the trade surplus continues to enlargen further. Though some clever analysts are pointing out that half of the increase is price inflation. Â She said exports to the traditional key markets of […]
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