Commentary on special events in Thailand and the SET Index.
REITs will change the landscape quite a fair bit for several companies with income-recurring assets on hand, the ability to leverage (something which property funds can only do up to 10%) will allow firms like Ticon and CPN amongst several others to further expand without requiring an equity increase. But the delay has been in […]
Read More →Pre the protests no one thought this would’ve happened, but with the protests comes delays, and the fact that the infrastructure spending hasn’t started yet, the economy is stagnant from last year, well the BOT has come out with a rate cut now down to 2.25%. The Bank of Thailand cut its one-day bond repurchase […]
Read More →The clever folks at Thanachart Securities put this out during the week as the changes in the SET50 and SET 100 are expected in the 2nd week of December ’13. Basically new additions in the SET 50 include VGI & THCOM replacing KKP & MAKRO, and for the SET100 +BMCL, CHG, ERW, N-PARK, TFD, TICON, […]
Read More →GMO’s Jeremy Grantham is out with his latest quarterly paper and as usual its a must read, he goes through his thoughts on the economy, what Yellen is likely to do during her time at the Fed, earnings vs valuations, timing bear markets and so forth. One point he does make is that he (along […]
Read More →This was one of the best interviews I had the pleasure of doing, Mr. Abdullah does come across incredibly passionate about DTAC’s businesses and opportunities. Total Access Communication Plc (DTAC) is one of the leading telecommunication services providers in Thailand with a total subscriber base of 27.5 million users, making it the country’s second-largest mobile […]
Read More →So its finally approved for 2013 and 2014, less personal income taxes, so the numbers look like so Source: Bangkok Post This is wonderful for us tax payers, I don’t think it will have a big impact on the overall government’s revenue collection b/c there are only some 3 mn (?) actual personal income tax […]
Read More →Nope not my thoughts, instead these come from Byron Wein of Blackstone and there are several points within his commentary in regards to margin pressures in the US, Europe’s valuation and Japan’s Abe-economics, see below for a snippet and the link for the full article. I established three new categories, long-only United States and long-only […]
Read More →Krugman’s latest piece over at the NYT draws the comparison of Europe’s recovery since the ’08 GFC versus the Great Depression, and yes its rubbish in comparative terms. So the bulls will say “hey at least things are getting better” whilst the bears will counter “but it’s still awful considering the xx.xx billions of euro’s […]
Read More →And its all done! Preah Vihear belongs to Cambodia as everyone had expected, the Senate kicked out the Amnesty Bill with a 140-0 vote. What else are they going to stay on the streets for now? To kick the government out and have a snap election? Please democrats you’re still going to lose. Red shirts […]
Read More →BTS Group Holdings Plc (BTS) and TMB Bank (TMB) will be added as components of MSCI Global Standard Indices.  The 15 new stocks on the MSCI Global Small Cap Indices are Asia Plus Securities Plc (ASP), Chularat Hospital Plc (CHG), CK Power Plc (CKP), Country Group Development Plc (CGD), Diamond Building Products (DRT), DSG International […]
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