Commentary: The past week has been terrible for all sectors because of the flood crisis in Thailand continuing with no signs of it abating, more industrial estates are affected, and fears that the water volumes will have to be released via Bangkok in order to reach the Chao Phraya river resulted in a large drop […]
Read More →Given that much of the news over the past four weeks has been either about the Euro Debt Crisis or the Flooding in Thailand not many market commentators nor analysts have spoken much about how the new government’s policies are going to impact the market here. Within the past two weeks the government has ratified […]
Read More →Following on from the earlier post showing that Small Mid Cap’s can outperform the broad market here in Thailand. We want to show that each and every year, except for 2008 during the GFC, there are a multitude of companies in Thailand that increase in market cap value. Image 1: # of SMC’s that move […]
Read More →Latest thoughts from our resident Queen Chartist, Ploy. Surely, everyone here is so sick and paranoid with the flood news, but excited with the rapid rise in the SET. You may not like it, but the sunny days in the Thai stock market may not last long. Here, I have the chart of the SET […]
Read More →Following the merger of PTT Chemical (PTTCH) and PTT Aromatics (PTTAR) forming PTT Global Chemical, effective from the start of trading on Friday 21 October 2011, there naturally will be an impact on the SET Large Cap indices and on BIG C Supercenter’s stock price.
Read More →Commentary: Year to date the Technology sector is still the best performer due to the Telco’s remaining buoyant on the back to potential 3G licensing to come through. Industrials are obviously the worst performers because of the flood crisis in Thailand. But we feel that there are good undervalued companies in this sector now because […]
Read More →Published in the Bangkok Post Business section on 14th October 2011 BGT Corporation Plc sells ready-to-wear retail apparel and accessories under the trademark of Body Glove with the Hand Device logo. It has distributed through both its own stores and department stores since 1988 and has expanded throughout Thailand. Chief executive Dickson Goh Kok Cheng […]
Read More →I love investing in small & mid cap stocks (SMC’s) in Thailand. I was first exposed to researching them back in 2006 when the fund I was with realised that none of us were very good traders of large caps, and that we were far better researchers of companies and industries. Since then I’ve never […]
Read More →Ladies n gents I’m happy to say that we have a guest blogger, Ms. Ploy Tang-u-thaisuk, who will be posting her thoughts on the Thai market, derivatives, stocks, and sectors here weekly. Despite her youth, I’ve been tracking her comments/thoughts over the past few years and have found them to be an excellent resource when […]
Read More →My my, how did we get ourselves into this predicament? Thailand’s flood situation just seems to get worse and worse and there isn’t much that the government can do about this except be reactive. My friends in Bangkok have already started to move their cars to be parked far above ground level in anticipation of […]
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