Anutin meets Microsoft executives ahead of roadshow with 25 investors

Foreign investors returned to buying Thai stocks, with net purchases of 52.68226 billion baht from the start of the year through September 22, comprising 6.60989403 trillion baht in buys and 6.55721177 trillion baht in sells. In September alone, net buying reached 1.31328 billion baht, from 626.56138 billion baht in buys and 625.24810 billion baht in sells, marking the highest foreign buying in two months and making the Thai stock market the most sought-after in ASEAN. The supporting factor came from Meta's launch of a new AI model with higher processing efficiency, offered free of charge, which the market expects will extend its advertising business and accelerate demand for AI CAPEX, benefiting Thai component stocks, especially DELTA and HANA. Meanwhile, Infra Tech stocks drew support from the NBTC's proposal for a data center board to set new investment criteria, including requiring operators to have power purchase agreements and water supply certificates, to use domestic materials no less than 50%, and to add sustainability requirements. This is expected to boost industrial estate stocks such as AMATA and WHA, power stocks such as GULF, BGRIM and GUNKUL, bank stocks such as KBANK, KTB, KKP and BBL, as well as contractor stocks such as STECON, PYLON and INSET. At the same time, the Cabinet meeting approved extending the Thai Help Thai Plus 40/60 Phase 2 project by another 2 months, from October 1 to November 30, 2026, with a total budget of 42.69 billion baht, and approved an additional 700 baht per person in product purchase credit for state welfare cardholders for October only, bringing the total injection to 1,000 baht per person. This measure is expected to benefit retail stocks such as CPAXT, BJC and CPALL, as well as consumer goods stocks such as CBG and OSP, in a second-round effect.

The National Development and Reform Commission said at a press conference on September 22 that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period it will push the BeiDou industry to exceed 1 trillion yuan in scale within five years, achieving new breakthroughs in market-oriented, industrialized, and internationalized large-scale applications of BeiDou. On the same day, the annual development report released by the China Electricity Council showed that China's electrification rate has surpassed 29 percent, reaching about 29.5 percent in 2025, up 1.4 percentage points from the previous year, and will leap to first place among major global economies by 2030. Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming said at the Apsara Conference that current customer demand for AI is very strong, and the company will fully invest in AI infrastructure construction, with a goal of operating more than 20 gigawatts of global data center capacity under Alibaba Cloud by 2032. Meituan Vice President and head of its flash purchase business unit Xiao Kun said that over the next three years, Meituan Flash Purchase will invest 30 billion yuan in support resources for industry partners in infrastructure construction, product research and development, and merchandise marketing. At the company level, CICC's share swap merger received valid declarations of dissent for 7.3219 million shares, and its A shares resumed trading; Shanshan Corporation plans to invest 5.106 billion yuan to build an integrated base project with an annual output of 150,000 tons of lithium-ion battery anode materials; and Wisesoft was placed on file for investigation by the China Securities Regulatory Commission for suspected illegal information disclosure.