Kasikorn Research Center predicted that the government's economic stimulus package and the Monetary Policy Committee's direction would boost the SET index this week (February 11 to 14) while the baht was expected to move in the range of Bt31.00 to 31.50 per US dollar.

BEIJING - One nation after another is closing its doors to most Chinese travelers as the death toll from the novel coronavirus continues to rise with no sign that the virus can be contained before it becomes a full-blown planetary health crisis. China's increasing isolation threatens to turn this new epidemic into a geopolitical conflict, intensifying pre-existing tensions between China and the United States and having potentially significant impacts on the global economy.