AOT: British Airways extend direct flights suspension of BKK-Heathrow route from Oct22 till Mar 23; THAI & EVA are 2 carriers offering direct flights service. Comment: # of planes in the air need to ramp up faster for a quicker recovery. Regardless, visitor numbers are going to reach 1 mn this month. BAM: to wrap […]
Read More →Throw in the nearly -10% decline in the THB this year and the SET is down -16%. All the short term traders/investors are waiting for Wednesday night’s Fed speech – no idea why, rates are going up…and Thailand has ANOTHER 2 public holidays on thurs/fri. So it’s going to be a quiet week.
Read More →Notable Transactions Buy(s) THB 60 mn JMART – The son is still buying up shares. Sell(s) THB 13 mn N/a
Read More →Minnows to aid PPRP at poll: Small parties can help it bag list seats and counteract unfriendly seat calculation method. All eyes are on two small parties which are expected to help the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) secure party-list seats and counteract a new method of calculating the seats seen to favour small parties […]
Read More →BANPU in collab with SG partner Durapower & TH largest bus manufacturer, Cherdchai Motors sales to establish battery assembly plant in Nakhon Ratchasima province, target cod 1H23, aims to boost capacity to 1GWh by eo-FY26. Comment: I just wonder where they’ll source the raw materials for this to ensure competitive pricing? BEM’s retail subsidiary, BKK […]
Read More →BEM expects daily avg FY22 MRT riderships within 300k-400k trips/day, above 200k avg FY21, sees Jul Blue line ridership at 320k trips/day, account for 80% of pre-Covid level while avg tollway traffic stands at 1m trips/day account for 85% of pre-Covid. Comment: Is the -15% drop due to the number of entities shut down? Or […]
Read More →BA to launch Bt14.3b BAREIT, offering 1st year yield at 8.46% with Samui Airport as main asset, and plan to add on airports in Trad, Sukhothai and oversea airports. Comment: The samui airport is just a license to print money for this family. I’d argue it has limited the development of Samui. BYD sees return […]
Read More →BKI said long Covid may have an ongoing cost impact on the Thai insurance industry as it could increase the value of claims. Comment: With less competition there comes higher prices BGRIM CODed 140mw BGRIM Laem Chabang 1 (BPLC1R) pp, 30mw power sells to authority (EGAT) under 25yrs PPA, remained capacity & steam sell to […]
Read More →AOT: Israel carrier, El Al, requests Saudi Arabia authority to fly over its airspace to TH to reduce flight time to 8.5 hours from current 11 hours. CCET booked Bt13.1b sales in June, boosting 6M22 to Bt76.7b, +35% yoy, supported by continued demand for electronic devices. Comment: Oh, what slowdown? EGCO: Nam Theun 1 dam […]
Read More →At these levels one could argue the SET looks appealing, trading at near BV – yes yes I know I know, the new economy doesn’t need assets in order to do business, but at the end of the market it is a market metric that (I believe) holds in this part of the world – […]
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