Research on Thai Markets in general and the SET Index
Its 1Q13 earnings season and YoY comparisons are looking good b/c of last year’s low base (just a few months post the floods in 4Q11), going forward with the BoT looking to curb ST investments in the bond market resulting in the Thai baht finally weakening and no news flow locally, we wouldn’t be surprised […]
Read More →Last week saw the SET bounce back strongly with global markets surging by better nonfarm payrolls than expected and a step down in the unemployment rate from 7.6% to 7.5%.
Read More →Thai Economy: MPC prefers policy mix to handle baht — The Bank of Thailand’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has agreed on the need for a timely implementation of appropriate policy mix, to manage the exchange rate. In a statement released today, the MPC said that the policy mix “as warranted by circumstances” will be implemented […]
Read More →Positives Global Europe: Germany raises growth forecast — The German economy is expected to grow by 0.5% this year, up from the previous estimate of 0.4%, the German Economics Ministry announced on Thursday. German GDP is still expected to grow 1.6% in 2014, unchanged from previous growth prediction. (Xinhua, 25/04/13) US: In the week ending […]
Read More →Thailand Purple Line readies for 2016 debut pending cabinet OK — The long delayed Purple Line mass transit project ids expected to be operational by 2016 as the operating and maintenance contract is expected to be approved by the cabinet after Songkran, says BMCL. The construction of the 16-km route is halfway done, said BMCL […]
Read More →North Korea, Bird Flu, and local politics making noise pretending to be important all resulted in the market having a difficult week.
Read More →Thailand MPC edgy but maintains rate — The Monetary Policy Committee yesterday voiced stronger concern over the brisk trade in property and equities and the surge in bank credit but till kept its policy interest rate unchanged at 2.75%. With one member absent, the MPC voted 5:1 to hold the rate and vowed to keep […]
Read More →Well its a question we’ve been asking for a while, so last week we decided to take a quick a look at how the sector weightings have changed since the end of ’07 and its quite surprising. In the past we’ve always taken for granted that Resources were the biggest weighting in the SET, however […]
Read More →We haven’t been surprised by the movement in the THB and still argue that eventually the currency will return to THB/USD should be 25 within a relative short period of time (not tomorrow obviously). Thus fund flow, Fitch ratings upgrade, a “stable” government, and yields to chase and voila Thailand receives fund flow Thailand’s baht […]
Read More →Positive(s) The finance ministers of 17 eurozone countries approved an EU-IMF plan for restructuring Cyprus’s banking sector on Monday, putting their stamp on a proposal that will fundamentally overhaul the country’s two largest banks. The plan, negotiated on Sunday between Cyprus’s president and EU and IMF leaders, is seen as workable US: The Federal Reserve […]
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