Research on Thai Markets in general and the SET Index
The clever folks at Thanachart Securities put this out during the week as the changes in the SET50 and SET 100 are expected in the 2nd week of December ’13. Basically new additions in the SET 50 include VGI & THCOM replacing KKP & MAKRO, and for the SET100 +BMCL, CHG, ERW, N-PARK, TFD, TICON, […]
Read More →What has happened thus far? Well as a positive the Senate had passed through the THB 2 trn borrowing bill however the Democrats and a group of 66 lawmakers filed a case to the constitutional court to invalidate the bill as they believe the loan bill contravenes Section 169 of the constitution as it would […]
Read More →GMO’s Jeremy Grantham is out with his latest quarterly paper and as usual its a must read, he goes through his thoughts on the economy, what Yellen is likely to do during her time at the Fed, earnings vs valuations, timing bear markets and so forth. One point he does make is that he (along […]
Read More →Thailand Foreign institutes worry about rice support — Knowledge Network Institute of Thailand Policy Research Institute (KNIT) says that since the IMF has raised questions about the government rice subsidies scheme, several foreign institutes have asked KNIT to release some of its statistics on the matter, saying that the rich subsidies scheme is one of […]
Read More →So its finally approved for 2013 and 2014, less personal income taxes, so the numbers look like so Source: Bangkok Post This is wonderful for us tax payers, I don’t think it will have a big impact on the overall government’s revenue collection b/c there are only some 3 mn (?) actual personal income tax […]
Read More →The most interesting development over the past month has been the decline in telco’s once the darling for the market it now no longer appears to be the case, and also the recovery of the food sector Â
Read More →3Q13 results for publicly listed Thai companies were all due by 14th November and analysts around Thailand and whoever covers Thai companies have been busy. What we’ve seen thus far on a general basis are the following: Minimum wage increase is still having an impact on manufacturing based co’s or any co’s that have low […]
Read More →Nope not my thoughts, instead these come from Byron Wein of Blackstone and there are several points within his commentary in regards to margin pressures in the US, Europe’s valuation and Japan’s Abe-economics, see below for a snippet and the link for the full article. I established three new categories, long-only United States and long-only […]
Read More →Krugman’s latest piece over at the NYT draws the comparison of Europe’s recovery since the ’08 GFC versus the Great Depression, and yes its rubbish in comparative terms. So the bulls will say “hey at least things are getting better” whilst the bears will counter “but it’s still awful considering the xx.xx billions of euro’s […]
Read More →Thailand Domestic rice prices in free fall — The government’s delay in paying farmers for rice earmarked for the pledging scheme has resulted in declining domestic paddy prices, say traders. The average local paddy price is now only Bt6,500-6,000 a tonne, far lower than the Bt15,000 offered by the government. (Bangkok Post, 11/11/13) Senators shoot […]
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