Today’s batch of August data highlight the continued slowdown in manufacturing, which is heavily focused on exports production. The easing in this area is not over but domestic demand is well-placed to cushion the blow to the economy as a whole. The Bank of Thailand (BoT) is still on course to lift policy rates again in Q4 while the rally in the baht and in Bangkok stocks, we judge, has further to go.
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