{"id":517900,"date":"2026-06-30T08:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517900\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:37:26","slug":"bangkok-post-thai-may-factory-output-falls-0-8-y-y-weaker-than-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517900\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok Post &#8211; Thai May factory output falls 0.8% y\/y, weaker than forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUBLISHED : 30 Jun 2026 at 12:03<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c1_3278852_800.jpg\"   alt=\"Thai May factory output falls 0.8% y\/y, weaker than forecast\" class=\"img-fluid\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thailand&#8217;s manufacturing production index dropped 0.8% \u200bin May \u200cfrom a year earlier, the Industry Ministry said on Tuesday, weaker than analyst forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>The May reading compared with a \u200byear-on-year \u2060decrease of 0.34% forecast in a Reuters poll, and followed a revised fall of 0.94% \u200cin the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>Factory output was weighed down by declining automotive production and elevated \u2060inflation, the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Car production dropped 17.94% in May from a year earlier, according to the Federation of \u200bThai Industries.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing geopolitical conflict affected energy costs, transport, and the procurement \u200bof \u200csome imported raw materials, pushing up manufacturing and logistics costs, the \u200bministry \u2060said.<\/p>\n<p>Output was supported by government stimulus measures and stronger \u2060exports, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry has forecast that factory output will rise 1.0% to 2.0% this \u2060year. Last week, the central \u200bbank left its key interest rate unchanged and raised its 2026 economic growth outlook to 2.3%, with \u200cexports seen \u2060up 14%.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUBLISHED : 30 Jun 2026 at 12:03 Thailand&#8217;s manufacturing production index dropped 0.8% \u200bin May \u200cfrom a year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,237198,85,46,237196,237200,237194,237195,237199,237197,237193],"class_list":["post-517900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-federation-of-thai-industries","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-thai-economic-growth","tag-thai-economic-indicators","tag-thai-factory-output","tag-thailand-automotive-industry","tag-thailand-export-outlook","tag-thailand-industrial-production","tag-thailand-manufacturing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}