A little exercise we like to perform is to see how the market has performed historically and to note if there are any trends. Especially given the fact that since the bottom in October when the market was 850, the rally was primarily driven by foreign investors and we wanted to see if there was […]
Read More →Comments: The past week has been all about the Greeks acting democratic and the flood crisis in Thailand continuing. Only two industry sectors are still positive for the year and now we finally understand why ADVANC has remained so strong as INTUCH (formerly SHIN , owned by Temasek and holds 42.5% of ADVANC) will look […]
Read More →Published in the Bangkok Post Business section on 4th November 2011 Founded in 1994 and listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand in 2001, Siam Future Development Plc (SF) has been the leader in open-air shopping centres for 12 years. It provides a range of specialised real estate services such as acquisition, development, management and […]
Read More →Ake, a former colleague of mine from TSCAP days, has started a great informative site charting the economic developments of Thailand, www.factforthought.com, and has graciously allowed me to use some of his slides for presentations and for on here as well. Due to the flood crisis in Thailand, downgrades for Thai 2011 GDP are to […]
Read More →Wow, its only been a month of me rambling here but 1,000+ hits already. My thank you list is getting longer and longer (howard, michael, ploy, roger, shawnz, and now ake). But thanks again everyone.
Read More →Given what just happened in Greece, I just had to repost this. So what have we learned in the past 2,066 years ? “The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome […]
Read More →My my how things quickly change again….., after just supposedly being saved by the EU with the leveraging of the EFSF, Greek Prime Minister George A. Papandreou got all hot and bothered by the Greek public outrage towards the austerity measures, he decides to allow them to make a vote upon whether or not to accept […]
Read More →In my relatively short investment career in Thailand, I’ve seen the country experience the bird flu pandemic, tsunami in phuket, military coups, capital controls, riots, global financial crisis, swine flu, more riots, airport shut down, and yet this wonderfully silly country just somehow seems to always recover both in terms of economic performance and stock […]
Read More →Latest thoughts from our resident queen chartist Ploy. She still thinks that the market will continue to rally but that we should keep our eyes at the Brent and THB/USD exchange rate. While most Thais are busy with the flood, it seems that the foreign investors are buying the SET. The volume from these foreign […]
Read More →Another great article from K. Voranai in the Bangkok Post today. If you really want to know why the flooding is extremely bad in some parts of Thailand and why it hasn’t hardly affected inner Bangkok just read below, its all down to one thing: POLITICS “On Oct 21, MR Sukhumbhand said the flood gates […]
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