Research on Thai Markets in general and the SET Index
Well Politics politics politics were the main news for the past week, however point your eyes to how the telecom sector has been performing, average numbers from ADVANC has hurt the sector badly and given that’s one of the largest sectors on the SET, it may continue to be a drag on any market rally. […]
Read More →And its all done! Preah Vihear belongs to Cambodia as everyone had expected, the Senate kicked out the Amnesty Bill with a 140-0 vote. What else are they going to stay on the streets for now? To kick the government out and have a snap election? Please democrats you’re still going to lose. Red shirts […]
Read More →@10 AM The senate meets! Either they will accept the bill or chuck it out the window and then we have @4pm the Preah Vihear dispute and then we have a 6PM deadline set the Democrat’s rally for the the government to annul the amnesty bill. In the meantime more anti-amnesty and anti-gov folks will […]
Read More →Politics – This is the first time I’ve seen so many white collar folks actually join in protests, Mr. T your respect is waning rather quickly, perhaps he should be less dictatorial in pushing things through parliament Politics – CP Group had been telling their staff to take the day off and to go and […]
Read More →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. […]
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