Mark Mobius @ Franklin Templeton is out with his 4Q review, and here’s his thoughts on Thailand and the link to the article for his thoughts on the rest of the Emerging Markets Thailand could see some weakness in economic activity due to the one-year period of mourning following the passing of its king in […]
Read More →AOT AOT will split par to Bt1/share on Jan 27 which will increase liquidity. It expects 1QFY17 earningsof Bt4.9bn, up 6%, brought by more passengers. (Kao Hoon, 24/01/17) Comment: Retail investors and basically everyone else are going to love this. CHOW CHOW plans to operate more power plants. It targets total capacity of 100MW by […]
Read More →You can see the bank oligopoly in Thailand is still strong. I do wonder how much market share BAY will be able to take away from the traditional big 4 in the coming years. Source: Bloomberg
Read More →ABC ABC plans to focus on E-Payment and expects to sign a contract with a financial institution and its partners. It plans to provide “ABC Payment service” to boost its fee income and 2017 revenue. (Kao Hoon, 23/01/17) BCP BCP’s board approved in buying 50mn capital increase shares of Lithium America Corps (LAC) via its […]
Read More →When you see that every sector has been positive for the last 12 months, alarm bells may be ringing, or if you look at everything in context, over 2 years the market is up ~4%. Resources are still recovering (oil is still some 50% below its peak), telco’s have been dogs, banks haven’t done much. […]
Read More →Notable Transactions Buy(s) THB 408 mn TTI – Must’ve been a block trade because there is zero liquidity here. TRC – Is the potash mine project finally happening? MCS – Well thats interesting, we thought the peak for MCS was when it hit 20 on the back of a lot of orders that were recognised […]
Read More →Thailand Future Fund Thailand’s future fund is still ongoing developments have been slow in the past 12 months but the government seems to be picking up steam as we have the potential IPO of the Thailand Future Fund coming in April ’17 What projects could it initially injected? Apparently the MoF is targeting to have 2 […]
Read More →Here’s all the news I still collected when I went offline for the past few weeks (13/12 – 17/01), they are in chronological order, no comments, its a lot to read, enjoy. Stocks in the news (banpu, bgt, chewa, chow, com7, cpl, dtac, fer, forth, gunkul, lhbank, nncl, nok, pt, pttgc, tpbi, tpoly, work) 17.01.17 […]
Read More →U.S. retail sales boosted by auto demand; producer prices climb. U.S. retail sales rose in December amid strong demand for automobiles and furniture, providing further evidence that the economy ended the fourth quarter with momentum and is poised for stronger growth this year. The Commerce Department reported that retail sales increased 0.6 percent last month […]
Read More →ASEFA ASEFA plans a roadshow abroad which it hopes will bring in more investment by funds. It will make a decision by the end of January. It has budgeted more than Bt10mn to open seven new branches nationwide. It targets 2017 revenue growth of 15% YoY, with more jobs waiting to be booked and new […]
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