Research on Thai Markets in general and the SET Index
Somchai spins 5% growth view. Somchai Sujjapongse, the finance permanent secretary, said the government’s plan to issue 100 billion baht worth of government bonds to finance provincial development and stimulate the economy is expected to spur private investment worth 200-300 billion baht next year. Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said on Wednesday that the government […]
Read More →We’ve seen the banking sector perform incredibly well in the US since Trump has become president-elect and further confidence in interest rates being hiked by the Fed, when would the Thai Banking see the same type of performance?
Read More →Property tax delayed over bill dispute. The government has decided to postpone enforcement of the land and buildings tax law for one year after the Council of State expressed a different view on taxation of unused land. The delay until 2018 follows disagreements between the Finance Ministry and the government’s legal advisory body, said Finance […]
Read More →So earnings season is done, Trump is in. What’s left to spook or support the markets? We have the Fed coming up and European elections, potential rebalancing by the Funds in their holdings, but in reality I think the market will be relatively quiet until the end of year. Now currencies on the other hand […]
Read More →Digital Currency I’ve been curious as to what the next change in central banking will be..we’ve had the gold standard, the removal of the gold standard leading to the fiat system being more prominent and thereby to the US dollar effectively becoming the world’s currency, the establishment of the IMF etc etc so what’s next? Sweden […]
Read More →Government approved EEC projects. 48 EEC development projects with total value of Bt7bn were approved. (Siam Rath, 18/11/16) Bangkok – Huahin high speed train to be proposed to PPP within this year. The project is 211 km long with total value of Bt94.6bn. Recently, 193.5km Bangkok – Rayong route with total value of Bt152bn was […]
Read More →Gotta love bloomberg terminals, so just have a look at the month of December and you can understand why during the period from 2007-2012 every broker was banging on about a year end rally. What will 2016 hold for the market, will the high cash levels at local funds result in forced buying? Will the […]
Read More →The market has bounced back quite strongly from the events in the past few weeks/months and earnings thus far haven’t been as negative as many may have expected. I do expect the next few weeks are going to rather volatile with bonds & currencies moving on any news regarding Trump and the Fed.
Read More →B99bn allotted for transport in 2017. The government is set to spend 98.8 billion baht next year to develop logistics networks, including three motorways and 10 electric train projects. (Bangkok Post, 7/11/16) CPI tweak for Internet, phone fees — THE COMMERCE Ministry will adjust its inflation calculation system by increasing the weightage for Wi-Fi and […]
Read More →An indirect discussion on investments via politics, a democratic system and class warfare. Needless to say it’s quite a good read, see below for a snippet and a link to the rest of the memo. The trends discussed above – and resentment over experiencing them, fear of doing so, and anger upon seeing them at […]
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