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Asian investors take profits after upbeat week
Published on 23/03/2024
» RECAP: Most Asian equity markets slipped yesterday on profit-taking after a big rally the day before, but Japan's Nikkei closed at an all-time high, underpinned by record gains on Wall Street overnight, strength in automakers' stocks and a weaker yen.
Bangkok’s financial centre status slips further
Published on 22/03/2024
» Bangkok’s status as a financial centre is declining while Singapore continues to outrank Hong Kong as the top money hub in Asia, according to the latest edition of the semi-annual Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI).
Partner organisations set to resume cable cleanup effort
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 22/03/2024
» Four organisations are teaming up to lay overhead cables underground along 116 routes in Bangkok and the provinces this year, covering a combined length of 213 kilometres.
Retail investors snap up government savings bonds
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 22/03/2024
» Government savings bonds drew overwhelming interest from retail investors this month as interest rates are expected to decline.
Business leaders push sustainable intelligence
Business, Published on 21/03/2024
» Corporations are urged to embrace a sustainable intelligence paradigm empowered by artificial intelligence (AI) to deal with the changing industry landscape.
Gulf presents plan for energy, digital asset and virtual bank
Business, Published on 21/03/2024
» Gulf Energy Development, one of Thailand's largest private power producers, has outlined strategies to expand to digital asset exchange and virtual banking businesses, while continuing to build its key energy segment.
Structural flaws impede our economy
Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 21/03/2024
» It took Japan 17 years to learn that a macroeconomic policy is for stabilising an economy, not stimulating growth. Due to low economic growth in the "lost decade" following the financial crisis in the autumn of 1997, the Bank of Japan adopted an unthinkable monetary policy of a negative interest rate in 2007 by pushing the short-term policy rate down to -0.1%.
Egat insists power supply enough to meet demand
Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 20/03/2024
» The state-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) insists power supply in Thailand will be sufficient as it plans to import more liquefied natural gas (LNG) to support power generation in the country, says Thepparat Theppitak, the newly appointed governor of Egat.
State revenue collection falls short of target
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 20/03/2024
» Government revenue collection has missed the target, signalling an economic slowdown, largely attributed to diminished purchasing power caused by high interest rates, says permanent finance secretary Lavaron Sangsnit.
CIMBT intensifies drive to expand retail loan portfolio
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 19/03/2024
» CIMB Thai Bank (CIMBT) is intensifying its efforts to expand its retail loan portfolio, with the aim of boosting returns in the business segment through both interest rate and fee-based income.