India, Aug. 17 -- The Thai stock market has finished lower in two straight sessions, slipping almost 20 points or 1.6 percent along the way. The Stock Exchange of Thailand now sits just beneath the 1,260-point plateau and it figures to remain rangebound again on Monday.
The global forecast for the Asian markets is murky amid a cloudy outlook for interest rates. The European and U.S. markets were mixed and little changed and the Asian bourses figure to follow suit.
The SET finished modestly lower on Friday following losses from the food, industrial, resource, services and technology sectors.
For the day, the index shed 7.25 points or 0.57 percent to finish at 1,259.42 after trading between 1,253.51 and 1,270.89. Volume was 9.840 billion s...