India, March 18 -- The Thai stock market has moved higher in two of three trading days since the end of the two-day slide in which it had stumbled almost 30 points or 2.4 percent. The Stock Exchange of Thailand now sits just above the 1,175-point plateau and it's expected to turn lower again on Wednesday.
The global forecast for the Asian markets is soft ahead of the FOMC rate decision later today. The European markets were up and the U.S. bourses were down and the Asian markets figure to follow the latter lead.
The SET finished modestly higher on Tuesday following gains from the consumer, finance, resource, service and technology sectors.
For the day, the index gained 5.97 points or 0.51 percent to finish at 1,176.17 after trading betwe...