Under a basket-peg exchange rate regime and volatile global capital movement, not much room was available for independent monetary policy in Thailand. Relationship between monetary and economic variables became unstable, forcing the Bank of Thailand to adopt the “multiple-indicators” approach in monitoring monetary conditions and in assessing the need for policy actions. The indicators included short-term interest rates, commercial bank deposit and lending rates, bank reserves, monetary aggregates, capital floes, private credit expansion and pectoral allocation. While the “multiple-indicators” approach provided the policy with much-needed flexibility within a volatile economic and financial environment, it sometimes undermined the central bank’s ability to make timely and reliable assessment of economic and financial market development, as well as its ability to communicate meaningful policy signals to the market. Additionally, the Bank of Thailand’s domestic open market operations were severely constrained by a small and illiquid public bond market due to year’s fiscal surplus.