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Investor excitement builds ahead of MTSH listing
Investor appetite is high for shares in Myanmar Thilawa SEZ Holdings Limited, which will on 20 May become the second company to list on the Yangon Stock Exchange, securities firms say. MTSH, established in 2013 by a nine-shareholder consortium, will list 3.9 million shares at a base ...
Yangon stock exchange on track for March trading debut
The Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX) is expected to begin shares trading by the second week of March, with dry-run testing already underway, an official from the Securities Exchange Commission of Myanmar (SECM) told The Irrawaddy on 29 February. Though the YSX officially “launched” late last year ...
Thai shares dip as global recovery stalls
Thai stocks fell briefly below the psychological 1,300 mark on 9 February as intensifying anxiety over the global economy fanned demand for safe-haven assets, with local gold bullion momentarily hitting 20,050 baht per baht-weight. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index started the day on a ...
Analysts see Thai stock market advancing 11% this year
The Stock Exchange of Thailand index is forecast to gain 11% to 1,442 points this year, based on government infrastructure projects, says the Investment Analysts Association (IAA). The analysts forecast the index will peak at 1,501 points and hit a trough of 1,163, with 60.7% of analysts ...
Vietnam shares end three-day decline
Vietnamese shares rose on both local markets yesterday, snapping a three-day decline, led by large-cap stocks. The benchmark Vietnam Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange rose 1.2 per cent to close at 564.26 points. The southern index dropped 2.9 per cent in the previous ...
Thailand leads declines in Asian stocks, Europe opens lower
Most Southeast Asian stock markets traded lower on 8 December, with the Stock Exchange of Thailand posting its biggest one-day decline in two weeks on falling oil prices. The SET index posted the steepest fall in the region with a 1.6% drop, led by oil firm ...
Souvanny to be fifth company listed on Lao Securities Exchange
The leading construction material supplier “Souvanny Home Center Public Company” is ready to be listed on the Lao Securities Exchange after receiving better than expected responses from share buyers. Souvanny sold all 25 million shares at the par value of 3,100 kip per share on 30 ...
Groundless EU rumour smacks big-cap Thai shares
Thai stocks dived 1.29% on 2 December on panic selling after rumours swirled on social media that the EU had imposed sanctions on Thailand. The Stock Exchange of Thailand index, Asia’s worst-performing market for the day, took a nosedive just minutes after the afternoon session began, with the ...
Scramble behind the scenes as Yangon Stock Exchange nears launch
Just a week before Myanmar’s first modern stock exchange is set to open on 9 December, a much-delayed announcement on the names of securities companies has not yet been made, underwriters have not received licences and domestic IPOs seem a distant dream. Ten companies have been ...
Chinese firm intends to list on Cambodia Stock Exchange in 2016
Hong Kong-based developer Eastland Development (HK) Ltd has expressed interest in listing on Cambodia’s stock exchange within a year. Sam Yang, the company’s chief executive, said during a recent company promotional event that Eastland is working with a local underwriter to prepare to float shares on ...