Given that the market has begun to waver around the 1,200 point over the past week and with foreign fund flows slowing slightly we have to ask, should the SET Index continue to be so bullish? Brokerage houses are now upping their targets for the SET Index this year, others are starting to place targets […]
Read More →The Thailand Automotive Institute forecasts that automobile production will increase from 2.1 mil units p.a. to 3.1 mil units by 2015. This implies a 48% growth over 3 years, 28% per year. The Federation of Thai Industries expects that output will increase 48% YoY in 2012 as companies make up for output losses from the […]
Read More →The first two months of the year are all about the recovery of businesses affected from the flooding, specifically the Industrial’s sector. Both Amata and Hemraj have benefited tremendously from the flood crisis as their industrial estates were not affected at all, also Ticon has begun to recover as the impact on their rental factory […]
Read More →Over at my friend’s Ake’s website, www.chartingthailandeconomy.com, he put up a little graph showing a big downward revision for 2011 growth. Well look, the post-flood recovery progress begun in December 2011 with factories and industrial estates restarting and the government’s plan for rehabilitation (including the THB 350 bn flood reconstruction and water management plan) won’t […]
Read More →Comments: What happened in the past week? Euro crisis + Thai floods + US economic recovery + Oil near $100 = confusion in the markets.
Read More →Ake, a former colleague of mine from TSCAP days, has started a great informative site charting the economic developments of Thailand, www.factforthought.com, and has graciously allowed me to use some of his slides for presentations and for on here as well. Due to the flood crisis in Thailand, downgrades for Thai 2011 GDP are to […]
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 →In my relatively short investment career in Thailand, I’ve seen the country experience the bird flu pandemic, tsunami in phuket, military coups, capital controls, riots, global financial crisis, swine flu, more riots, airport shut down, and yet this wonderfully silly country just somehow seems to always recover both in terms of economic performance and stock […]
Read More →Latest thoughts from our resident queen chartist Ploy. She still thinks that the market will continue to rally but that we should keep our eyes at the Brent and THB/USD exchange rate. While most Thais are busy with the flood, it seems that the foreign investors are buying the SET. The volume from these foreign […]
Read More →Another great article from K. Voranai in the Bangkok Post today. If you really want to know why the flooding is extremely bad in some parts of Thailand and why it hasn’t hardly affected inner Bangkok just read below, its all down to one thing: POLITICS “On Oct 21, MR Sukhumbhand said the flood gates […]
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