Commentary on special events in Thailand and the SET Index.
The trends still haven’t changed in the past month, infact it has gotten stronger with 1) Foreign investors selling in August reps 1/2 of their selling this year; 2) Local institutions are the predominate buyers still w/ their buying last month 1/4 of their purchases of the year; 3) Retail investors their buying in august […]
Read More →The Philippines would be a bankrupt country if it weren’t for 2 factors 1) The 2-3 million overseas Philippino’s sending their money back home (OFW’s) to support their families – according to the Philippines Statistics Office*, Overseas Filipino Workers During Six Months Prior to the 2013 Survey by Area, transferred 163 billion pesos, that is ~USD 3.6 […]
Read More →The Bank of Thailand will permit to qualified investors with more than 100 million baht of liquidity to directly invest in foreign equities, bonds, mutual funds and other financial assets, deputy governor Pongpen Ruengvirayudh told reporters Friday. Overseas investments will be limited to US$5 million per year, she said. In 2017, the BoT will relax […]
Read More →Added value and ethical practices underpin Project Planning Service Project Planning Service Plc (PPS), which has been listed on the Market for Alternative Investment since September 2012, is a major engineering professional services firm. Phongthon Tharachai, deputy managing director, discusses the company’s strategy and outlook. What is PPS’s business model? We offer a comprehensive range of […]
Read More →It’s been a rather hectic week(s)/month(s), hence the slow blog posts and far less rambling articles. Firstly, the Bangkok bombing, I didn’t want to immediately put a long post spewing obscenities towards the fact that a military government can’t even protect one of the most visited locations in Thailand, and that Thailand’s tourism will still eventually recover […]
Read More →The latest cabinet reshuffle has quite a few interesting changes, some expected, some a pleasant surprise, others meh. Firstly the expected – Somkid in charge as a deputy PM – a positive given he “should” know something about how to boost an economy given his performance under Thaksin’s first term Pleasant Surprise(s) – Apisak Tantivorawong […]
Read More →Survey: Capacity at 55% in H1 – The weak global economy has led to declining orders from overseas importers, forcing Thai industries to cut their production capacity and overtime payments to employees, reports the Employers’ Confederation of Thai Trade and Industry (EconThai). EconThai’s survey showed overtime payments in the first half of this year dropped by 21.1% because of […]
Read More →The evil chinese are devaluing their currency to ruin the world! Right…that’s the headline I’ve been reading the past few days, and this is the only chart that I care about at the moment. And these quotes from El Erian China is now following a path that many other advanced and emerging economies have been attempting […]
Read More →The image below does explain a lot in terms where FDI is going within the region, for the 2nd largest economy in ASEAN, Thailand hasn’t been able to attract the #’s that one would expect, I wouldn’t be surprised in 5 years to see Vietnam attracting far more capital than Thailand. Source: Bangkok Post
Read More →Another paper out by Bill Gross 10 days ago also with rather negative overtures towards the markets and the debt levels/interest rates, here are some snippets and a link to the full piece. Draghi’s ECB and the Merkel controlled EZ ascribe to the old theory of “Feed a fever, starve a cold†– the “fever†[…]
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