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Recovery lures foreign fund inflows

Thailand’s bullish economic recovery is attracting high volumes of foreign fund inflows into Thai bonds and stocks, pushing the baht to a seven-month high, making it the strongest currency in Asia year-to-date.

According to Kasikorn Research Center, the bond market received 127.79 billion worth of net overseas investors’ capital in the period between the beginning of 2022 to mid-February.

This brought foreign investors’ total holdings of Thai bonds to 1.15 trillion baht, setting a new record of the highest value of foreign bond-holdings in three years.

Meanwhile, a net buy in the Thai stock market from foreign investors amounted to 64.58 billion baht from the beginning of 2022 to mid-February. However, things to keep a close watch on are data on Thailand’s fourth quarter of last year, January’s export figures, the direction of foreign capital funds, the pandemic…

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