AOT’s Mae Fah Luang-Chiang Rai International Airport will be closed until Wednesday after a Nok Air passenger jet skidded off the runway on Saturday night. COTTO hikes ceramic tiles & flooring products price by 1-2% on higher energy costs, expects 2H sales fairly even with 1H, sets Bt400m budgets for efficiency upgrade, jv overseas partners […]
Read More →What’s driving the market? Funnymentals of course, DELTA knocked it out of the park with their earnings and this name is back to being the main reason for the market racing back up. As for the rest of the names, banks have surprised analysts (they seem to be surprised often) with better than expected figures, […]
Read More →A shortened week in the midst of earnings season thus nothing happened Notable Transactions Buy(s) THB 1 mn n/a Sell(s) THB 4.5 mn n/a
Read More →Time for some rants and random thoughts. Disjointed spending If you’ve been walking around the 3S’s (that’s my acronym for sukhumvit, silom and sathorn) during Wednesday-Friday this week (a few weeks ago) you’d think that Bangkok is dead quiet and that there is no economic activity occurring. This just led to me thinking that we’re […]
Read More →BJC: sets Bt 1.6b capex to up capacity of tissue & personal care products, revamp warehouse automation to save costs. Comment: I still wonder how much shrinkflation can help companies such as BJC show earnings growth. CKP: reaffirms solid 2Q from strong flow rate at Xayaburi hydro pp, higher equity income yoy after raised holding […]
Read More →AOT: British Airways extend direct flights suspension of BKK-Heathrow route from Oct22 till Mar 23; THAI & EVA are 2 carriers offering direct flights service. Comment: # of planes in the air need to ramp up faster for a quicker recovery. Regardless, visitor numbers are going to reach 1 mn this month. BAM: to wrap […]
Read More →Throw in the nearly -10% decline in the THB this year and the SET is down -16%. All the short term traders/investors are waiting for Wednesday night’s Fed speech – no idea why, rates are going up…and Thailand has ANOTHER 2 public holidays on thurs/fri. So it’s going to be a quiet week.
Read More →Minnows to aid PPRP at poll: Small parties can help it bag list seats and counteract unfriendly seat calculation method. All eyes are on two small parties which are expected to help the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) secure party-list seats and counteract a new method of calculating the seats seen to favour small parties […]
Read More →BANPU in collab with SG partner Durapower & TH largest bus manufacturer, Cherdchai Motors sales to establish battery assembly plant in Nakhon Ratchasima province, target cod 1H23, aims to boost capacity to 1GWh by eo-FY26. Comment: I just wonder where they’ll source the raw materials for this to ensure competitive pricing? BEM’s retail subsidiary, BKK […]
Read More →BEM expects daily avg FY22 MRT riderships within 300k-400k trips/day, above 200k avg FY21, sees Jul Blue line ridership at 320k trips/day, account for 80% of pre-Covid level while avg tollway traffic stands at 1m trips/day account for 85% of pre-Covid. Comment: Is the -15% drop due to the number of entities shut down? Or […]
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