India, Aug. 3 -- The Thai stock market has moved lower in consecutive trading days, falling more than 25 points or 2 percent along the way. The Stock Exchange of Thailand now sits just beneath the 1,220-point plateau and it's likely in for a rough ride again on Monday.
The global forecast for the Asian markets is broadly negative on new U.S. tariffs, plus an extremely weak American jobs report. The European and U.S. markets were sharply lower and the Asian bourses figure to follow that lead.
The SET finished sharply lower on Friday following losses from the consumer, finance, industrial, property, resource, service and technology sectors.
For the day, the index dropped 24.02 points or 1.93 percent to finish at 1,218.33 after trading betw...