Research on Thai Markets in general and the SET Index
Loan guarantee firm sets Bt500-bn target under its new five-year plan. THAI Credit Guarantee Corporation (TCGC)’s five-year plan for 2018-22 is to lift its outstanding loan guarantees to Bt500 billion, covering 450,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs)nationwide, according to senior executive vice president Wichet Warakul. (Bangkok Post, 19/3/18) Thai Deputy Prime Minister Reiterates Thailand in […]
Read More →Just look at the breakdown across all the industries in the past month.
Read More →And the market performance covers to be separated between a few large caps keeping the market positive whilst most other sectors are struggling.
Read More →SEPO said Ministry of transport is developing a minor PPP plan to propose to the PPP committee. This plan involves consideration of mass transit lines in Chiang Mai and Khon Kaen to be included as PPP. Previously, the committee included only Phuket and Korat projects. (IQ Biz, 12/3/18 Cabinet approved additional budget bill for FY2018 […]
Read More →JSCCIB maintains 2018 economic, export forecasts as growth momentum continues. The Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking (JSCCIB) has maintained its forecast of Thailand’s economic growth at between 3.8 per cent and 4.5 per cent for this year, with export growth still predicted to come in at 3.5 per cent to 6 per […]
Read More →His commentary came out 1.5 weeks ago and I’ve just gotten around to reading it properly. Here are two passages worth your time and a link to the rest of it. The market usually begins to buckle when the Federal Reserve is aggressively tightening. We know that the new Fed Chairman Jerome Powell wants to […]
Read More →Sitting on a plane is one of my few pleasures as I may finally catch up on reading books. Currently I’m working my way through Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed, and I just had to note this passage While market averages continued to race up, reaching their peak in […]
Read More →Outside of PTT and a few retailers, this market is looking awful.
Read More →Highs in key indices spur optimism for GDP. The Thai economy got off to a strong start in 2018, with solid private consumption and tourist arrivals, and exports and consumer confidence hitting multi-year records in January. This prompted the FPO in January to upgrade its economic growth forecast for this year to 4.2% from 3.8% […]
Read More →Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Tuesday that a general election he had promised to hold in November would take place “no later” than February 2019, the latest delay to anger critics of the government. Source: Bangkok Post And so it will now be in Feb ’19…and that is possible, in theory, the fastest that […]
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