Thailand stocks gained Thursday, with the composite Thailand SET Index
SET,
+1.25%
adding 0.3% to 1,368.54.
AIRA Capital
AIRA,
+6.51%,
a financial services company, was the biggest leader during the session, increasing 6.5%, and transportation/logistics firm SAMART Aviation Solutions
SAV,
+5.59%
rose 5.0%. MEB
MEB,
+4.35%,
which operates in the technology space, rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares adding 4.3%.
Index Living Mall
ILM,
-2.25%,
a retail/wholesale firm, posted the largest decline, dropping 2.7%, followed by shares of basic materials/resources company Eastern Polymer Group
EPG,
-1.97%,
which dropped 2.6%. Shares of automotive company AAPICO Hitech
AH,
-2.56%
dropped 2.6%.
In other parts of Southeast Asia, Singapore's FTSE Straits Times Index
STI,
+1.17%
declined 0.4%, while Bursa Malaysia was closed. The Philippines' PSEi Index
PSEI,
+1.27%
declined 0.4%, and Indonesia's JSX Composite Index
JAKIDX,
+0.52%
declined 0.1%.
Elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region, Hong Kong stocks rose, with the Hang Seng Index
HSI,
-0.21%
up 0.5%, while the NIKKEI 225 Index
NIK,
+0.41%
of Japanese companies dropped 0.8%. China's Shanghai Composite Index
SHCOMP,
-1.46%
dropped 0.6%.
The KOSPI Composite Index
180721,
+2.87%
of South Korean stocks increased 1.8%, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Benchmark Index
XJO,
+1.47%
dropped 1.2%.
On the currency front, the U.S. dollar
USDTHB,
-0.20%
fell 0.3% to 35.45 Thai baht, and the euro
EURTHB,
-0.02%
fell 0.4% to 38.30 baht.
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