Research on Thai Markets in general and the SET Index
And voila, here’s the snapshot for investor movement for 2015, its fairly obvious where the selling pressure has come from in the past month. But interesting to see retail investors finally pick up some shares in the last quarter of ’15.
Read More →Wasn’t that a fun year? See below for the carnage, what I’m finding more interesting at the moment are the dividend plays for March/April this year and names that were bombed out during 4Q15. Fun volatile times ahead and I’ll write more in my random thoughts this Friday.
Read More →4G Madness Boom! There we go, the most expensive 4G license bidding price in the world, Thailand, take a bow, not only does the country have the most number of coups in recent history it can now have another reason to be in the Guinness Book of World Records. A quick recap: During the week the stock […]
Read More →Quiet Motor Expo — A number of 39,125 orders were placed at Motor Expo 2015, 26.2 per cent below the 53,000 target. The number of orders was also 7.4 per cent below the figures recorded last year. The 13-day show which was wrapped up yesterday welcomed 1.5 million visitors. (The Nation, 14/12/2015) Japan invests in […]
Read More →….just as they said, just as it was telegraphed for most of the year, and so what? Currencies haven’t gone crazy, bond markets look ok, even equity mkts are up. Â It has been the biggest non-event which is perfect. So let us go outside and enjoy the “winter” weather that finally has hit BKK today. […]
Read More →Last week was  a shortened one for the SET as there were 2 public holidays but that didn’t stop the still relatively high daily value traded @ ~THB 40 bn, and what happened? Well the market dropped to be down 14.5% for the year which is impressive (so ~-20% in USD terms) and that’s just […]
Read More →“It takes little experience in the investment business to realize that investors prefer good news.” And there is a lot more in this quarter’s latest paper where they cover everything from the US Economy to Emerging Markets, see below for some snippets & the link to the rest of the letter:
Read More →And the top 10 wealthiest list is out for the year with Prasert of BDMS and BA still holding the top spot, interesting to see that MK Restaurant group has been able to breach the top 10. Source: Bangkok Post
Read More →Japan October machinery orders unexpectedly climb — Core machinery orders in the world’s third-biggest economy jumped 10.7 per cent in October from the month prior, widely beating estimates for a 1.5 per cent decline. That comes on the back of a 7.5 per cent rise in September. (Financial Times, 9/12/15) Eurozone GDP expanded 0.3% in […]
Read More →Well the story remains the same foreign investors continued to sell the market in November, albeit at a much slower pace, my fear of the prop desks selling their THB 10 bn of purchased shares have come true as well, so what’s left? Well we shall see how much strength retail investors continue to have […]
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