Research on Thai Markets in general and the SET Index
Co-pay scheme generates B70bn: Goal of the scheme is to stimulate consumer spending. Capital worth 70 billion baht circulated in the economy during the 3 1/2 months of the co-payment subsidy scheme, says the Finance Ministry. Bangkok Post Exports above expectations: Exports fared better than expected for the full year of 2020, contracting 6.1% from […]
Read More →Banks are done, next is the rest of the market. Thoughts on their earnings? Meh. Those that provisioned heavily and early (i.e. KBANK) looked great, those that didn’t, basically the rest of them, looked rubbish. Note the loan growth figures…tepid. I’m seeing more places close permanently on my weekend drives (~within 250 km from bkk […]
Read More →Aeronautical Radio of Thailand reports 55% drop in flights to 464K flights last year, but reported 11.5% rise in December, while AAV had the most flights at 7,668. Ministry mulls new round for co-payment: The Finance Ministry plans to add another registration round for the second phase of the co-payment subsidy at the end of […]
Read More →A political bomb over the weekend, but small in scale, looking at the market this morning, its a non-event. Though I do expect to see things continuing to escalate further. Want a cynical viewpoint? Protestors need a martyr to win. We’re going to see the financials come out with numbers in the coming weeks, it’ll […]
Read More →B4.6bn boost for Covid battle: Medicines, high-risk staffgiven priority. The Public Health Ministry has been allocated 4.66 billion baht from the government’s central budget to help fight the new Covid-19 outbreak. Bangkok Post FDA vows ‘safety first’: As Thailand’s vaccination drive looms, the government moves to allay fears about the Chinese vaccine it plans to […]
Read More →No, it’s not a new law firm, each of these renowned investors have put out new thoughts/predictions in the past week. The wonderful aspect of markets is that there can be wildly differing viewpoints but that several strategies/approaches can do well. So be prepared to sit down and spend hours on them. Byron Wein – […]
Read More →So the Thai Government has done another wonderful job at shutting down the economies throughout the country yet again. Same playbook, trades are in, just wait. Commodity prices are still going up up up. And shipping has already moved a fair bit. No inflation you say? Look at Japan’s electricity prices this month due to […]
Read More →~Rant begins~ Some of the books I’ve revisited during the past 6 months were George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. And for my own personal amusement I shall do a poor usage of the characters name for this random thoughts post Characters: Napoleon – Prawit Squealer – Prayuth Boxer – Anutin Benjamin – Pheu Thai […]
Read More →SET ‘top Asean’ trading performer: The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index rounded off the year as Asean’s top performer by daily trading volume, according to figures released yesterday. The index closed yesterday, the last trading day of the year, at 1,449.35, down 8.26% from last year. However, its daily trading volume averaged at 67.33 […]
Read More →COVID WUFLU Stupid government. There we go. Thoughts: Just unleash the same playbook, but it will go faster this time around. Ignore your personal thoughts on what should be done. Don’t you think NPL acquirers are going to rock and roll? Is there a listed co here which sells guns? And we’re off to the […]
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