Sector Update 24.09.12 to 28.09.12
Equity markets are loving central bankers, nuff said.
Read More →Tag: Thai Stocks
Thai co’s have good corporate governance
This isn’t much a surprise for us to hear, a public company here in Thailand has to deal with an extremely strict (albeit archaic) SEC and I’ve heard on on the odd occassion from CEO’s “The SEC wants us to disclose everything, our competitors will know too much about us!” But this is great for […]
Read More →Full-Service strategy paying off for hemaraj
Hemaraj Land and Development Plc (SET symbol: HEMRAJ) has been Thailand’s leading developer of industrial estates and related services since 1988. It offers developed industrial land, utilities, ready-built factories for rent, warehouses for logistics, quality industrial services and an integrated logistics and supply chain in six industrial estates, located mostly along the Eastern Seaboard. It […]
Read More →Don’t fight with central banks
The first rule of fight club investing is don’t fight with the central banks. Globally central bank policies have certainly transformed markets and placed a floor under all pull backs over the past few years. First the ECB pledge’s to buy up 3 year bonds (unlimited purchasing) of countries that will obey the laws and conditions […]
Read More →Thai Stocks to Get Boost From Infrastructure Push
Saw this article over at CNBC and it does a nice summary of what we were all waiting for this government to finally confirm and announce. THB 2.2 trillion baht worth of projects and liquidity to flush the system here. While companies will benefit? Well in this order I think. Contractors – Cement co’s – […]
Read More →Thai Exports were rubbish in August
Thailand’s Export numbers for August were rubbish, according to the the Ministry of Commerce reported that exports dropped -6.9% YoY  to US$ 19.6 bn from -4.4% YoY in July (although they were still up +1.1% MoM) Still something we’ve been writing all year is that because of the austerity measures in Europe coupled (and partly leading […]
Read More →Sector Update – 17.09.12 to 21.09.12
What a month the SET is having, up nearly 5% already, so much for September being the worst month of the year for equities!
Read More →Management Trades 17.09.12 to 21.09.12
Notable transactions Buy(s): BGH – The President continues his accumulation of shares, he started since around THB 80/share BTS – Now this is interesting, whilst the VGI listing is a good sentiment boost for the stock, I’m thinking aloud that it may be the potential of an infrastructure fund that may be the reason behind […]
Read More →Comment: SMT Plc
I had the pleasure of meeting Stars Microelectronics in 2009 when the company was making its margins building screen after screen for RIM (blackberry) and its revenues manufacturing hard drives for Western Digital. The owner had a very good story regarding how the company came to be and within the past year has been unfortunately […]
Read More →Thai Banks loans continues to grow in August
Analysts have been sending me this table most of today with the headlines that Thai Bank’s loan growth has been slowing in the month of August but a MoM growth of +1.0% for the whole sector isn’t bad. Based on the figures this is what I see: The Small financial institutions (KK and TISCO) have […]
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