Research on Thai Markets in general and the SET Index
Thailand VAT collection increased on average by 10.2 per cent in the first four months of 2015 – MR Pridiyathorn Devakula, the deputy prime minister in charge of the economy, commented during the Cabinet meeting that consumer confidence was not as bad as claimed by some. He urged the public to look at the collection […]
Read More →If you believe it. The two main sacred oxen, Phra Kho Fa and Phra Kho Lert, were each offered seven bowls containing seven different foods, and their choices were used to make the predictions. The seven dishes were paddy rice, maize, water, grass, soybean, sesame seeds and liquor. The oxen ate grass, a forecast that the […]
Read More →David Tepper of Appaloosa Management said it best a week ago, there are four Fed’s in the world today, the US is printing money, Europe has begun its own QE, Japan has it’s own QE and now China has joined the party with their latest round of interest rate cuts. The People’s Bank of China […]
Read More →The market hasn’t been performing well on the back of a continued weakening economy, relatively crap 1Q15 numbers, the BOT recently saying they need to weaken the baht to push growth, and still not the cheapest valuations, it’s only natural that things are coming off.
Read More →Two interesting articles from the FT in the past few weeks about Thailand, first up is a commentary on politics In the latest example of what one commentator has dubbed his “compulsive loquaciousnessâ€, he insisted to guests at an international publishers’ conference in Bangkok last week that he was not their enemy. But what came […]
Read More →The big push by local institutions at the end of April was quite something, represents more than 50% of their net buying for the year. Do note, as requested by some readers, we’ve expanded the charts to include a daily track of all investor movements during the year, enjoy!
Read More →Thailand Finance minister backs policy rate, calls for new growth areas – The current policy rate of 1.5% is accommodative enough to support economic growth, says Finance Minister Sommai Phasee. (Bangkok Post, 6/5/15) Fishing industry selling new image to Europe to counter IUU threat – Deputy Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn will lead a delegation of […]
Read More →Bill Gross’s latest investment outlook has quite the negative foreboding with comments such as “A “sense of an ending†has been frequently mentioned in recent months when applied to asset markets and the great Bull Run that began in 1981.” “Savor this Bull market moment, they seem to be saying in unison. It will not […]
Read More →And it’s that time of the year where one must read GMO’s latest quarterly letter, this time you’ll find: A discussion on long term bonds, overall asset allocation and how the current pricing in the market reflects future expectations (which appears to be nuts!) That US Equities should approach Bubble status given the “strange, manipulated […]
Read More →The market has fallen back off it’s peak for the year, the local trigger funds that had initially pushed the market up 2 weeks ago have worn off their effectiveness and reality continues to set it for the market, with financials now the worst performing for year as a result of weakening asset quality and […]
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