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As daily turnover surges, So does speculation

Recap: The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) continued to trade heavily above 50 billion baht a day (compared with an average of about 32 billion in 2012) for the third straight week since the year begun.

The SET Index moved sideways up in the range between 1,410.10 and 1,432.21 points and closed at 1,434.44, up 1.6% from the previous week, in a heavy daily average trade worth of 58.18 billion baht.

Foreign investors remained net buyers of 5.24 billion baht and are net buyers of 10.5 billion this year. Local institutions were net buyers of 1.64 billion baht. Brokers were net sellers of 2.63 billion and retail investors sold 4.43 billion.

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  • Discussion 1 : 28 Jan 2013 at 04.171

    "The SET hopes to see transactions through the new high-frequency trading (HFT) system rise to 10% of total volume this year."

    Why?

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