{"id":145,"date":"2007-07-05T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2010-11-25T11:07:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T04:07:58","slug":"set-at-new-high-amid-political-uncertantity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/set-at-new-high-amid-political-uncertantity\/","title":{"rendered":"SET at new high, amid political uncertantity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:chvTduD3WPoaYM:http:\/\/www.bangkokdesignbuilt.com\/images\/condo-sao06_resize.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:chvTduD3WPoaYM:http:\/\/www.bangkokdesignbuilt.com\/images\/condo-sao06_resize.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The country has it&#8217;s problems, but it seems more an more investors are becoming thick skinned when it comes to political turmoil. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/07\/04\/asia\/baht.php\">Story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This week, foreigners have helped push Thailand&#8217;s stock exchange to its highest level since the financial crisis that began here a decade ago, with net foreign buying on Monday and Tuesday of $300 million, according to Keith Neruda, head of Thailand research at UBS Securities in Bangkok.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Yet the country&#8217;s economic outlook is mixed. Thailand&#8217;s exports of cars, electronics and agricultural products continue to surge &#8211; one reason for the continued appreciation of the baht. But the banking system now has one of the highest levels of non-performing loans in Asia, 8.7 percent, according to Neruda at UBS. By contrast, bad loans account for 2.9 percent of lending in Singapore and 0.6 percent in Hong Kong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Never mind, Thailand is on a roll:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thailand&#8217;s main stock market index, largely driven by foreign buying, has risen about 21 percent since the beginning of the year. Foreign investors have bought $3 billion more than they have sold on the Thai stock exchange since January. Thai investors have been net sellers of the same amount.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Foreign tourists continue to arrive in record numbers despite the New Year bombings in Bangkok that killed three bystanders and the Muslim insurgency in southern Thailand. From January to April, 5 percent more foreign tourists arrived at Bangkok&#8217;s international airport than in the same period last year. In Phuket, the increase was 21 percent and in Chiang Mai, 9 percent. Overall, about 14 million tourists visited Thailand in 2006.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/4amexpat\" rel=\"tag\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em\" src=\"http:\/\/static.technorati.com\/static\/img\/pub\/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=4amexpat\" alt=\" \" \/>4amexpat<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country has it&#8217;s problems, but it seems more an more investors are becoming thick skinned when it comes to political turmoil. 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