Thailand still likely to loosen monetary policy

The Bank of Thailand (BoT) kept its policy rate at 3.0% today, as was widely expected. Healthy domestic demand is cushioning the blow from soft exports, but we think persistent global weakness will prompt the BoT to loosen its policy settings ahead. We continue to forecast a 25bp rate cut in Q4.

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