Research on Thai Markets in general and the SET Index
Thailand MoF warns: protests may slow GDP growth — The MoF warns that anti-government protests might lead to a slowdown in 4Q13 GDP, as Thailand may miss capitalizing on the traditional high season for tourism by tarnishing its public image of the country. (Khao Sod, 05/11/13) Rice deal concluded says spokesman — The government spokesman […]
Read More →What happened to the market? Simple, Politics! But market reaction is always short term in nature with this.
Read More →The weekend’s and yesterday’s protests actually caught quite a fair bit of attention in the global media and made the market drop some 40 pts (2.5%) in a day. Our viewpoint is simple, this bill still has to go through the Senate and then the Constitutional Court at which point we think it won’t pass. […]
Read More →Great monthly commentary out by Bill Gross of Pimco, and he’s made a couple points that are definitely worth mentioning. And here’s a rather incredible kicker to this theoretical comparison. The U.S. economy – thanks to the Fed – has been operating a 1 trillion dollar share buyback program nearly every year since late 2008, […]
Read More →Thailand Shrimp, industrial goods lead 7% export decline – Thailand’s exports fell by 7.09% YoY in September, bringing the nine-month expansion rate to a marginal 0.05%. With it, the Commerce Ministry admitted yesterday the country will likely end the year with shipments far from its growth target range of 3-4%. (Bangkok Post, 26/10/13) BoT ditches […]
Read More →I love this quarterly release from Vincent Fernando over @ Religare where they track earnings growth vs market performance on a sector basis for countries in ASEAN. So as a quick summary this is what he sees for ASEAN  Banks, non-coal energy, materials , retail and telecom offer the best growth in ASEAN by sector. […]
Read More →What happened now? Yesterday the House President called for an early bill debate today with 2nd and 3rd readings and votes by the end of this week and early next week and who sold off the market? Local institutions and prop desks (something we’ve been watching closely)… So whats the timeline of events now? If […]
Read More →Markets been fairly quiet for the past week, mid-week break resulted in a lot of people taking time off and that was obvious in the volumes as well. Major news? Well exports for Sept were poor @ -7.1% and the BoT lowered GDP growth for 2013 n 2014 to 3.7% and 4.8% from 4.2% and […]
Read More →Well now Pheu Thai has brought to the table a law that gives a blanket amnesty to law offenders, which includes everyone, yellow shirts, red shirts and good ol’ Mr T. So what’s happened thus far: 1. The first reading was passed just under 2 months ago but aimed only at the non-leaders of the […]
Read More →The QE tapering that never happened from a few months back sits in the back of our minds still as we sit here and wonder when will it happen, for now as the way things look, 2014 looks likely to be another year of continued easing and low rates world wide and Richard Koo here […]
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