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Rice to get costlier as supply threatened
Reuters, Published on 06/07/2023
» MUMBAI: Global rice prices, now at their highest in 11 years, are set to rally further after India moved to boost payments to farmers, just as El Nino threatens yields in key producers and alternative staples get costlier for poor Asians and Africans.
Thai stocks flounder in absence of China spark
Reuters, Published on 16/06/2023
» SINGAPORE: Thailand's stock market has become the symbol of investor disenchantment with China's economic reopening, going from market darling in January to Asia's second-worst performing market by June, with little sign of a turnaround.
Asian currencies, stocks fall on SVB contagion fears
Reuters, Published on 14/03/2023
» SINGAPORE: Most Asian currencies and equities lost ground on Tuesday as the United States banking sector crisis unnerved investors, although the Malaysian ringgit bucked the trend to climb higher.
Baht down ahead of policy decision
Reuters, Published on 25/01/2023
» Asian emerging markets trickled back to life on Wednesday after the Lunar New Year holiday, with the baht dipping ahead of a central bank policy rate decision, while Singapore shares hit a near nine-month high ahead of inflation data.
Headline CPI up 5.89%, in line with forecast
Reuters, Published on 05/01/2023
» Thailand's headline consumer price index (CPI) rose 5.89% in December from a year earlier, in line with analyst forecasts, but above the previous month driven by higher energy and food prices, government data showed on Thursday.
Cabinet approves transaction tax on securities trades
Reuters, Published on 29/11/2022
» The cabinet on Tuesday approved a financial transaction tax on securities trades on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), ending a three-decade waiver, Deputy Finance Minister Santi Promphat said on Tuesday.
Baht falls as BoT remains dovish, Asian stocks rise
Reuters, Published on 22/07/2022
» The baht extended losses on Friday after the country's central bank said inflation was under control and that future rate hikes would be strictly data-driven, bucking a firmer trend among regional currencies.
Thai stock investor mood at 3-month low over Ukraine war, Fed
Reuters, Published on 05/05/2022
» Investor confidence in the Thai stock market has slipped to a three-month low on concerns about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the US Federal Reserve's tightening policy, a capital markets group said on Thursday.
Jan consumer confidence dips for first time in 5 months
Reuters, Published on 10/02/2022
» Consumer confidence dropped in January for the first time in five months, hurt by a new coronavirus outbreak, a slow economic recovery and the high prices of goods, a survey showed on Thursday.
SET chief wary of planned tax on stock trades
Reuters, Published on 17/12/2021
» Stock trading volume will be impacted if the government introduces a transaction tax on securities trades on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, the bourse president said on Friday.