Research on Thai Markets in general and the SET Index
It’s that wonderful time of the year where the public can listen (or even stream online) to public companies present their business model, latest performance and so forth, there are some 100 companies this year, click the link below to see the whole schedule. https://www.set.or.th/set/oppdaybyperiod.do
Read More →It’s no surprise that 1Q15 numbers were weak, for the full year I have my doubts on Thailand being able to achieve the 3.4% prediction that comes out of the government, why? Exports are weak, Imports will pick up (should oil prices maintain these lvls), Consumption is weak (debt is too high), Government spending is […]
Read More →The market rebounded slightly last week but is still under pressure with earnings and expectations of government actions finally declining to reality. This morning Thai GDP numbers are to be released and we’ve heard that more Trigger Funds are going to be issued by asset managers which may buoy the market slightly for the next […]
Read More →The consistent winners: Construction materials, tourism & leisure, food & beverages and insurance all had decent YoY and QoQ Â growth rates The consistent losers: Construction services, personal products & pharma had rubbish YoY and QoQ growth rates. Anything interesting? Agricultural seems to be a cyclical funk, wondering out loud when will it rebound? Transportation & […]
Read More →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!
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