Don’t Try to Catch the SET Falling Knife While Thai Baht is Depreciating Against the U.S. Dollar

The SET index sold off for the second week in the row to close at 1,445.28 on Friday, down 5.1% for the week, as Thai institutions and proprietary trading firms continued ...

Shares of Intouch Are Going Nowhere Along with its Holding Companies

Intouch Holdings PCL (SET:INTUCH), formerly Shin Corporation PCL, is a Thailand-based company engaged in investments in satellite, internet, telecommunications ...

Fed September Rate Hike, if Any, Has to be Based Upon Something Else Besides Nonfarm Payrolls and Core PCE Data

The S&P 500 closed at 2,179.98 on Friday, up 0.50% for the week, as weakness in the Healthcare and Energy sectors ...

EU Move of Trying to Grab Tax Revenues from Apple is “Total Political Crap”

The European Commission ordered Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) this week to pay 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) plus interest in back taxes after the EU accused ...

The SET Index May Face Some Further Downside Risks Heading Into Volatile September

The SET index sold off 1.18% on Friday, to close at 1,521.48, ahead of the U.S. nonfarm payrolls reports for August, as Thai institutions were dumping shares, according to the SET ...

Shares of Carabao Group Took Off as International Sales of its Energy Drinks Accelerate

Carabao Group PCL (SET:CBG), 25.01% stake owned by Sathienthum Holdings Limited and 21% stake owned by Miss Nutchamai Thanombooncharoen, Managing Director of ...

Siam Cement Earnings Mixed Amid Weak Demand for Housing Products

Siam Cement PCL (SET:SCC), 31.6% stake owned by the Crown Property Bureau Group, which manages the Thai royal family’s properties and investments, is Thailand's largest ...

Clinton’s EpiPen Tweet and the OPEC Rumor Mill Drag Down S&P 500, While Fed’s Fischer Hawkish Comments Add More Confusion

The S&P 500 closed at 2,169.04 on Friday, down 0.68% for the week, as the OPEC rumor mill runs out of steam and ...

Bangkok Airways Shares Are Still Flying High

Bangkok Airways Public Company Limited (SET:BA), 66.47% stake owned by Puttipong Prasarttong-Osoth, Bangkok Airways President, and the Prasarttong-Osoth family, is a Thailand-based company engaged in the provision of air ...

Fed’s Fischer Comments at Jackson Hole Could Derail the SET Index Rally

The SET index inched up 0.34% on Friday, to close at 1,549.41, ahead of the speech by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen at the Kansas City Fed’s annual economic ...

Downside Risks for Siam Commercial Bank Shares Increase as Earnings Likely to Get Hit by Bad Loans in the Third-Quarter

Siam Commercial Bank PCL (SET:SCB), Thailand's third largest lender by assets, 2.77 trillion baht in 2015 ...

S&P 500 Sideways for the Second Straight Week as Financial Markets are Confused About What the Fed is Trying to do

The S&P 500 closed at 2,183.87 on Friday, practically unchanged for the second week in the row, despite a ...

The SET Index is at Risk of Breaking Down as Concerns About the Tourist Sector and BOT Baht Intervention Rise

The SET bumped into the lower trendline support of the ascending wedge chart pattern, to close at 1,538.76 on ...

KCE May Take a Pause after a Big Run Up

KCE Electronics Public Company Ltd. (SET:KCE), 25.64% stake owned by Mr. Pitharn Ongkosit, KCE Electronics President and CEO, and two other Ongkosit family members, is a Thailand-based company engaged in the manufacture ...

How Long Can The U.S. Dollar Index Stay Buoyant Amid Slower Trend Growth Of The U.S. Economy?

The U.S. dollar index, or DXY, a weighted index of the value of the U.S. dollar relative to a basket of six major currencies, pulled back sharply in late July after the U.S. Federal ...

Bumrungrad Hospital Shares Continue to Get Hammered by Weak Oil Prices and Strong Baht

Bumrungrad Hospital Public Company Ltd. (SET:BH), 24% stake owned by Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Public Company Ltd. (SET:BDMS) and 14.65% stake owned by ...

The SET Index Uptrend is at Risk as Bomb Blasts Targeted Tourists, While the Market is Already Over-Extended

The SET pushed higher along the trendline resistance of the ascending wedge chart pattern, to close at a 52-week high ...

S&P 500 Shrugged Off Weak U.S. Retail Sales Data, While the New York Fed Knocks Down the Third-Quarter GDP Forecast to 2.4%

The S&P 500 closed at 2,184.05, practically unchanged for the week, despite that the U.S. Commerce Department ...

Thai Oil Beat Earnings Estimate Despite Sagging Gross Refining Margin

Thai Oil Public Company Limited (SET:TOP), 49.1% stake owned by PTT Public Company Limited (SET:PTT), as of February 29, 2016, is a Thailand-based company engaged ...

Advanced Info Service Earnings Missed as Marketing Expenses Skyrocketed

Advanced Info Service (AIS) Pcl (SET:ADVANC) (OTCMKTS:AVIFY), 40.45% stake owned by Intouch Holdings Pcl (SET:INTUCH) and 23% stake owned by Singtel ...

WTI Crude Oil Price Bounced Off a Technical Support Following a Volatile Week, Downside Risk Continues

The WTI crude oil spot price inched up just $0.20 per barrel for the week, to close on Friday at $41.80 per barrel, while ...

S&P 500 Jumped on Better-Than-Expected Seasonally Adjusted Nonfarm Payrolls, Decelerating U.S. Economy and Job Growth Could Derail ...

The S&P 500 inched up 0.43% for the week, to close at 2,182.87 on Friday, along with crude oil prices, in tandem ...

The SET Index Bounced Off a Technical Support Ahead of Thai Referendum

The SET pulled back to test the trendline support of the ascending wedge chart pattern and bounced off to close at 1,518.69 on Friday, down 0.35% for the week. The index ...

Banpu Under Selling Pressure as Coal Prices Continue to Sag

Banpu Public Company Limited (SET:BANPU) is one of the largest coal miners in Southeast Asia. It owns stakes in more than 20 coal assets around the world, including Laos ...

AOT: Breakout or Breakdown?

Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited (SET:AOT), 70% stake owned by the Ministry of Finance as of December 17, 2015, operates two principal business segments, which are the airport business and hotel business. The company ...

Semiconductor ETF Facing Major Headwinds As U.S. Recession Looms

The Market Vectors Semiconductor ETF (NYSEARCA:SMH), which tracks the PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index (NASDAQ:SOX), bounced off the June 27 low at $53.09 ...

S&P 500 is Digesting Worst First-Half U.S. Economic Performance Since 2011, While Some Fed Officials Believe it’s No Big Deal

The S&P 500 inched down 1.43 points during the busiest week of the year filled with market moving economic ...

The SET Index Continues its Parabolic Move with a Rising Collective Pullback Risk — “If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen”

The SET climbed another 0.99% during the busiest week of the year filled with market moving economic events, to ...

Shares of IVL at a Multi-Year High, Hold’em or Fold’em?

Indorama Ventures Pcl (SET:IVL), 63.69% stake owned by Indorama Resources Ltd., is a Thailand-based holding company, investing in various companies in 21 countries ...

Crude Prices Breaking Down as Concerns Rise About the Lackluster U.S. Economy… Don’t Believe it, Just Ask Starbucks

The WTI crude oil spot price tumbled 4.52% for the week to close on Friday at $44.19 per barrel, while the Brent crude ...