AMATA – New strategy will slow growth — AMATA said that revenues and profits this year are expected to slow due to a new business strategy, which focuses on long-term leases on land of up to 30 years instead of selling the land. The company hopes to hold on to its assets for the long term […]
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 →Market Update September continued the volatility seen in August with all assets classes ex US Treasuries globally falling ~10%. The SET dropped just over 14% during September. As discussed in last month’s letter to clients we opined that we were extremely worried about a potential liquidity crisis given the Eurozone’s exacerbated debt issues and the […]
Read More →Tracking foreign investors in Thailand is a necessity as they do have a substantial impact on the SET. We do this daily/monthly/quarterly by monitoring the change in NVDR holdings in Thai equities. fyi: NVDR holdings, Non-Voting Depository Rights, are a vehicle in Thailand for non-thai investors to buy shares in Thai Equities. It is tracked […]
Read More →Something odd happened on Monday, 26th September @ 2.35pm, 5 minutes after the market reopened, the SET was trading down ~-9.5% for the day, with the circuit break (where if the market is -10% the Stock Exchange of Thailand will halt trading for 30 minutes) just a few sell orders away the market stopped trading….
Read More →A lot of friends and colleagues have been asking us over the weekend “What do we do now?” My answer to most of them, much to their chagrin is “Well its a bit late for asking.”
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