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Baht Tops Asia EM Scoreboard After Notable Equity Inflows Seen Monday

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The baht cements its early gains, comfortably outperforming all of its regional peers. Spot USD/THB last deals -0.302 at THB35.460, consolidating below its 50-DMA.

  • The benchmark SET Index is little changed on the day, consolidating yesterday's gains. The index printed fresh two-month highs in the process.
  • Sentiment has been bolstered by FinMin Arkhom's call for a modest pace of monetary policy normalisation.
  • Elsewhere, the news that the gov't will downgrade the epidemiological risk posed by COVID-19 from October bodes well for the domestic tourism sector.
  • Note that foreign demand for local assets picked up on Monday, with global funds buying a net $125.97mn of equities, per data from the Thailand Stock Exchange. This represented the largest net equity inflow since June 1.

Fig. 1: Thailand Stock Exchange Foreign Investors Net Flows ($)

Source: Bloomberg/Thailand Stock Exchange

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