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Thailand Private sector hit by slowing domestic consumption — Businesses in the private sector believes that if no government can be formed in 1H14, Thai GDP growth will only be in the range of 1-2%. (ASTV Manager, 18/03/14) Exports beacon of hope for GDP growth – Despite lifting the emergency decree and adopting a looser […]
Read More →AGE AGE targets revenue growth of 20% YoY in 2014 to Bt6bn and expects sales volume of 4mn tons. Management guides to 1Q14 revenue growth of 50% YoY after expanding to China and India. (Khao Hoon,, 21/3/14) Comment: The issue for AGE is that their margin’s as selling prices of coal have been in a […]
Read More →Well Yellen chaired her first succession, annouced another cut in the asset-purchase program by USD 10 bn – so they are still buying USD 55 bn a month of of mortgage-backed securities and longer-term Treasury securities. Anything else? Well the fancy sentence is now “Shifting to “Qualitative Guidance†from “Quantitative Guidance†for the federal funds […]
Read More →The tide of hot money is turning in favor of Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. Overseas investors have bought a net $1.6 billion of shares in the three Southeast Asian countries in March, poised for the biggest monthly inflow since January 2013. That follows $4.2 billion of withdrawals in the fourth quarter, which matched the […]
Read More →CHO CHO reports more than Bt1bn in backlog and will sign a contract for a Bt700mn new job. It expects earnings for 1Q14 to continue to be strong and revenues this year to grow by at least 15%. (Khao Hoon, 20/03/14) Comment: A unique business here as they build niche trucks/vehicles and ships of all […]
Read More →AH Aapico to slim down on costs- Aapico Hitech Plc (AH), the SET-listed automotive parts manufacturer, plans to maintain its 2014 profit margin at 3-4%, the same level as last year, even though its revenue is expected to fall by 5-10% in line with sluggish domestic car sales. (Bangkok Post, 19/03/14) Comment: AH has a […]
Read More →International Tourist arrivals came out down 8% YoY for Feb and thats grabbed all the headlines, but tourism related stocks (hotels, airlines) have been doing very well in the past 1-2 months b/c all the news re the protests have already been priced in since the first week of the year. The question we’ve been asked […]
Read More →AAV Thai AirAsia to begin major push to lure back tourists – Thai AirAsia is preparing to work with the AirAsia network regionally to promote Thailand more aggressively to revive a stable flow of foreign tourists into the Kingdom after it was hit by prolonged political turmoil, while in the process meeting its cabin-factor projection […]
Read More →We have an interesting few weeks coming up with politics in Thailand: Yingluck has been given a 15-day reprieve by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), so by the 29th March she will have to present her defence and then the NACC will conclude an impeachment case -> nothing positive out of this for her. The […]
Read More →I’m loving these weekly chart updates, because despite the fact that we have protests and GDP issues, the market is up 5.7% for the year, and apparently the property market is going to be hurt badly, well the sector is up +7.3% for the year, and banks are going to suffer as well!! But..the sector […]
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