Research on Thai Markets in general and the SET Index
The market has wobbled back down for the year, what do technicians call this chart pattern? A triceratops? Sorry triple top, I’m not going to be surprised if we begin to see a lot of negative chartists out there. Anything interesting happening this coming week? Well we have Greece (hasn’t changed for the past […]
Read More →Byron Wien of Blackstone, just released his latest monthly paper and its a heck of a read. He covers his thoughts on how all the government spending may have influenced the equity markets in the US, Europe and Japan, its quite the read, enjoy the snippets below and a link to the rest of the […]
Read More →There was a lot happening this past week, of interest to me is the Thai government looking to sell some stakes off in public and private enterprises. Thailand MPI drops 5.3% in Songkran month of April – The Manufacturing Production Index in April plunged 5.3 per cent from March as some manufacturers took more days off […]
Read More →His latest paper is a discussion on the low interest rate environment and how he plans to navigate it going forward, it is quite the enjoyable read, here’s a snippet and link to the rest of the article. On the bond side, my famous (infamous?) “Short of a lifetime†trade on the German Bund market […]
Read More →Here are some comments from around the Web + my own at the bottom Thailand is the least preferred equity market in Southeast Asia given lofty valuations and ongoing political uncertainty, Morgan Stanley wrote in a report this week, predicting a possible 10 percent decline in the MSCI Thailand Index in dollar terms. The baht […]
Read More →The market continues to wobble around the 1,500 levels, why? Well economic growth is still a bit meh, more importantly earnings are meh and in reality we aren’t going to see anything wonderful until infrastructure spending actually kicks in, and the market is still pricing in those potential high levels. Going forward we may have […]
Read More →Thailand Economy will expand by 4.7%: Prayut – Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha expects the economy to expand by 3.7 to 4.7 per cent next year, when the government starts spending the Bt2.72-trillion budget earmarked for the 2016 fiscal year. (The Nation, 22/5/15) Baht to remain volatile for now, BOT warns – The Baht will […]
Read More →And yet people wonder why there are so many accidents…investment wise – insurance premiums to increase in the future? Source: Bangkok Post
Read More →It isn’t a secret that Thailand hasn’t really invested in its own infrastructure since before the Asian Financial Crisis, granted we have had the creation of the skytrain, subway and airport, but these were all Bangkok-specific and not throughout the whole country. Investment made up about a fifth of total spending in fiscal years 2002 through […]
Read More →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
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