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Phew!! What a week!

Phew!!
Signs of a measure of calm returned to global stock markets on Friday, ending a tumultuous week.  Asian stocks extended their region-wide rebound Friday, with Hong Kong shares leading the way with a 6.73 per cent jump, ending one of the most volatile weeks in the market’s history.
In Bangkok, the SET index surged 32.32 [...]

Asian investment behaviours

Umesh Pandey writing for The Bangkok Post reports Asia, increasingly the centre of gravity for the world’s investors, continues to fare well as a region for doing business, despite policy volatility in some markets.In the recent Doing Business in 2008 report released by the World Bank and Industrial Finance Corp late last month, Singapore led the [...]

Slowdown? What slowdown? Asia property market continues to perform

There’s a lot of talk of slowdown in the Thai property market, and the political uncertainties have certainly had their effect.  But Clayton Wade, managing director of Premier International, a Thailand-based residential and commercial property consulting group, in a recent interview with The Bangkok Post, has a different take.  With the recent downturn in economic [...]