BANPU BANPU expects Hong-Sa power plant to generate US$100-200mn/year, 40% of which it will book. It has budgeted US$554mn for its five-year investment plan. It expects capacity to reach 4,300MW by 2025. It expects coal sales to reach 43.1mn tons this year. (Khao Hoon, 04/04/16) Comment: We are still wondering how they are going to […]
Read More →A A targets 2016 revenue of Bt7bn compared to 2015’s Bt5.43bn thanks to large orders. It plans to launch Bt20bn projects, raising backlog from Bt2bn and covering revenue through 4Q16. It is budgeting Bt600mn to buy land for new projects. (Thun Hoon, 01/04/16) Comment: This relatively small property developer has been on my radar ever […]
Read More →AAV AAV sets 2016 passenger target of more than 16.9mn passengers from 14.8mn. In THE first two months, the number of passengers grew 20%. It has budgeted Bt500mn to buy five planes and for oil price hedging. (Kao Hoon, 31/03/16) Comment: Without a doubt they are the #1 airline carrier in town. CWT CWT increases […]
Read More →AKR AKR expects 2016 revenue to grow not less than 50% aided by public projects. It plans to cooperate with agricultural cooperatives to take part in government unit solar farm in April. It expects to get electricity transformer orders in May. It expects to take part in Bt6bn bids. Investors in Singapore and China are […]
Read More →* Thailand’s Consumer Prices Continue to Fall in March — The country’s headline consumer price index dropped 0.46% in March from the previous year, easing slightly from the 0.50% on-year fall in February, data from the ministry showed. However, the March CPI edged up 0.21% from the previous month, accelerating from a 0.15% on-month rise […]
Read More →What bear market? Source: Bloomberg As an fyi posts will most likely be minimal for the next few days – week as I’m traveling.
Read More →Here. Given the risks to the outlook, I consider it appropriate for the Committee to proceed cautiously in adjusting policy. This caution is especially warranted because, with the federal funds rate so low, the FOMC’s ability to use conventional monetary policy to respond to economic disturbances is asymmetric. If economic conditions were to strengthen considerably […]
Read More →To be honest – I don’t quite care about what will be in this new constitution (re investment decisions) and I doubt the public cares much either, in the end the key thing that I care about is the timeline. If the government can maintain this timeline then I’m still going to be positive about […]
Read More →AKR AKR expects 2016 revenue to grow not less than 50% aided by public projects. It plans to cooperate with agricultural cooperatives to take part in government unit solar farm in April. It expects to get electricity transformer orders in May. It expects to take part in Bt6bn bids. Investors in Singapore and China are […]
Read More →Maybank Kim Eng Thailand has these great updates on a weekly basis regarding the Infrastructure Investment, see below for a succinct summary. Who benefits from this? Well the usual players, CK, STEC, UNIQ, ITD, maybe the smaller ones too hopefully, i.e. NWR, CNT, PYLON, etc… Investment: Infra investments update The Cabinet approved construction of a […]
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