million, an increase of 7.8%. For domestic sectors, consumption and investment started to recover, though not yet at broad-based level. This was reflected from durable goods consumption that showed sign of

totaling 35.4 million, an increase of 8.8% yoy. For domestic sectors, consumption and investment started to recover, though not yet at broad-based level. This was reflected from durable goods consumption

driven by improving domestic economic conditions, bouyant exports and the tourism sector. The market expects private consumption to have expanded, with higher spending on durable goods – particularly

and electronic sector, while non-durable goods sector was marginally increase. Domestic demand slowly improved in all sector as regular income. As a result, domestic industries expanded and business

environment The Thai economy for the year 2019 exhibited a decelerating trend. Private consumption slowed down in almost all categories especially in durable goods from the contractions in vehicle sales partly

confidence coupled with the already high household debt level. Nevertheless, the non-durable goods increased partly from the rush in purchase of consumers goods due to the concerns on the COVID-19 outbreak

consumption slowed down in almost all categories especially in services segment: hotels, restaurants and transportations from the various measures implemented to curb the outbreak. Durable goods segment also

go into daily necessities and non-durable consumer goods having inelastic demands. • Liquidity in the company remains high with cash and cash equivalents of US$0.6B and unutilized credit lines of US

, several commercial banks may continuously set aside high provisions and focus mainly on debt restructuring in order to control loan quality, even though the Bank of Thailand’s leniency in asset

%. A decrease in the peak demand was mainly influenced by the lower temperature than previous year and the success of implementing energy saving programs, which had pushed down the power consumption