ended 30 June 2017 To: President The Stock Exchange of Thailand The Thai economy expanded in the 2nd quarter driven by the export and tourism sectors. However farm income growth is still subdued, as
continued to gradually expand in the second quarter, driven primarily by the export and tourism sectors, as well as an increase in the price of rice after a prolonged period of stagnation. However, these
quarter is usually the low season for retail businesses, due to the impact of the rainy season, with frequent downpours causing a slowdown in customer traffic. Although the export and tourism sectors
been affected in accordance with the economies of major trading partners and the declining global trade volumes. This has begun to have further effects across all sectors, especially to domestic demand
impacted by declining global demand, which has also led to a deceleration of private consumption as a result of lower employment, particularly in export- related manufacturing sectors. Elevated household
weakness of consumer buying power. However, in the second half of the year, the economy has shown signs of recovery in both the tourism and export sectors. As a result, the performance of stores in major
activities of almost all sectors which have been disrupted, particularly the tourism sectors. The consumption of private sectors of almost all categories of the commodities was shrank. The employment and
. Meanwhile, the private sectors continued to slow down investment. Private households in various sectors paid more attention on spending because there were still having problem on purchasing power and incomes
. Government spending and government investment did not drive the economy fully. Meanwhile, the investment of private sector was slowed down, household sectors from various sectors paid more attention on