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TDRI: Make foreigners hedge
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 11/05/2013
» Authorities should use capital flow management to address baht appreciation rather than wait for an interest rate cut by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), because foreign capital inflows are going to persist, says Ammar Siamwalla, an economist at the Thailand Development Research Institute.
Household debt worries MPC voters
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 07/03/2013
» High credit growth, a surge in household debt and worries about asset prices prevented most Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) members from voting to cut the one-day repurchase policy interest rate at their Feb 20 meeting, show minutes of the meeting.
Economists dismayed by baht row
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 02/03/2013
» Local economists have voiced disappointment over the most recent public debate on baht appreciation and the use of monetary policy to address it.
Rate cut would be 'a mistake'
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 08/02/2013
» The improving global and domestic environment could compel the Bank of Thailand's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to raise the policy interest rate this year as a means of cooling down asset prices and inflation, says UBS AG.
Prasarn: Long-term stability is my priority
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 01/02/2013
» Governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul has reaffirmed that the central bank's stance on monetary policy is to focus on long-term sustainability, not to serve a short-term focus or single objective.
Developing growth slows as FDI ebbs
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 24/01/2013
» Developing economies are starting to receive more foreign investment after the economic doldrums in the US and euro zone curtailed outlays in May and June last year, says the World Bank.
BoT takes more personal approach in development
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 20/12/2012
» The Bank of Thailand has created strategies to become more engaged in economic development over the next five years.
Central bank chief wary of impending capital inflows
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 18/12/2012
» The financial market should brace for even more capital inflows after the US Federal Reserve adopted a new policy tieing the near-zero interest rate to unemployment and Japan's election hinted at more aggressive economic stimulus.
Long road ahead for TPP talks
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 23/11/2012
» Experts say entering into the US-led free trade negotiations known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will be a lengthy process due to constitutional requirements.
BoT: Inflow control in danger of ebbing under TPP
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 17/11/2012
» The Bank of Thailand should retain the right to implement measures that manoeuvre foreign capital inflows in any negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP), says governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul.