Despite a marginal recovery, the sentiment remained subdued with most regions ending lower on economic worries, while Malaysia and Indonesia reversed course to notch gains. Indonesian's benchmark also rose at close but failed to offset losses earlier in the week, notching a weekly loss that snapped three straight weeks of gains. Vietnam's index posted its seventh straight session of loss, and second consecutive weekly loss. The index also recorded a weekly loss of 4.2%, its worst performance since the week ending Oct 26. Singapore's index edged lower to post its third consecutive weekly loss.

Source: Bangkok Post December 21, 2018 10:18 UTC