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Lively foreign buying lifts set index but futures ease down

By The Nation
Published on May 26, 2008

The SET50 Index closed last week up 1.44 points or 0.23 per cent at 631.80.

The SET50 Index Futures, whose nearest contract S50M08 expires at the end of June, was settled down 1.7 points or 0.27 per cent at 633.7.

The SET index jumped early in the week on heavy volume.

The most active stocks were in the energy and bank sectors, driven by foreign buying.

However, the SET index fell back on profit-taking and pressure from the record oil price.

Total TFEX volume was 22,791 contracts, representing Bt14.1 billion, with 22,224 contracts in SET50 Index Futures and 567 in SET50 Index Options.

Open interest contracts as of Thursday numbered 22,023.

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