{"id":83369,"date":"2026-05-29T09:11:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/thai-baht-pressured-by-record-deficit-against-us-dollar-commerzbank\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:11:02","slug":"thai-baht-pressured-by-record-deficit-against-us-dollar-commerzbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/thai-baht-pressured-by-record-deficit-against-us-dollar-commerzbank\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai Baht: Pressured by record deficit against US Dollar \u2013 Commerzbank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-content-section\">\n<p>Commerzbank\u2019s FX analysts flag that USD\/THB slipped to 32.55 on portfolio inflows, even as Thailand\u2019s April trade deficit widened to a record USD10.0bn. Authorities warned the Baht could stay under pressure if strong imports persist, with the currency already down 3.2% versus the Dollar year-to-date despite stronger AI-related export growth.<\/p>\n<h2>Record deficit weighs on Thai Baht<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;April trade deficit widened to USD10.0bn (Bloomberg consensus: USD5.3bn) vs USD3.3bn in March, marking the widest deficit on record and the seventh consecutive monthly deficit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nantapong Chiralerspong, the Director-General of the Trade Policy and Strategy Office, warned that the Thai Baht (THB) could remain under pressure if strong imports continue to widen the trade deficit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government maintained its base-case forecast for exports to grow 3% this year, with a worst-case scenario of -3% and a best-case scenario of +8%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nonetheless, THB has steadily weakened since mid-April on higher global oil prices and strong demand for USD.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>(This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commerzbank\u2019s FX analysts flag that USD\/THB slipped to 32.55 on portfolio inflows, even as Thailand\u2019s April trade deficit widened to [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}