Thai army chief and coup leader Sonthi Boonyaratglin denied rumours on Thursday that he was about to fire his appointed prime minister or impose martial law in the capital, to the relief of nervous stock market investors.
The benchmark SET index, which shed 2.2 percent on Wednesday amid speculation Sonthi was about to crack down on an anti-coup demonstration in Bangkok, regained more than one percent.
Sonthi, who led last September's bloodless military coup against democratically elected prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, appeared on television to deny reports of an impending curfew or ructions within the military. Another rumour sweeping through the jittery capital suggested that rogue elements in the Council for National Security (CNS), as the coup generals are called, would oust Sonthi in a counter-putsch.
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