A different perspective on Vietnam’s economy and doing business in Vietnam. Make sure to subscribe.
Vietnam and the Middle Income Trap: Unpacked
Vietnam’s 8 Percent GDP Growth Target: Unpacked
Buy More, Sell Less: Tackling Vietnam’s Trade Surplus with the US
Is Vietnam the Next Asian Tiger Economy?
What Recent Traffic Reforms Say About Doing Business in Vietnam
Building An International Financial Centre in Vietnam: Unpacked
Vietnam’s Economy in 2024: A Brief Recap
What to Watch Now Google Has An Office in Vietnam
Does Vietnam Have a Private Consumption Problem Too?
The 8th Session of Vietnam’s National Assembly: Key Takeaways
Rethinking Financing Vietnam’s Clean Energy Transition
Vietnam’s New Social Media ID Regulations: Unpacked
How Well Prepared Is Vietnam for a Trump Presidency?
Temu in Vietnam: What’s Fair in Free Trade?
Media Relations in Vietnam: Lessons from VinFast
It’s Time to Talk About Vietnam’s Credit Growth Policy…
Vietnam’s Economy in Q3 Beyond GDP Growth: Unpacked
Paying For Vietnam’s High-Speed Rail: Unpacked
Day: March 7, 2024
VN-Index up, foreign traders net sell US$6.16 million, March 7
The VN-Index has closed up 5.73 points or .45 percent to finish Thursday at 1,268.46. Foreign traders continued to net-sell stocks. They reduced their holdings by a collective US$6.16 million. Foreign trader activity, last five trading days Buy Sell Change Date VND* US$ VND* US$ VND* US$ 1/3 2,509 $101,620,020
Foreign firms buy up Vietnam insurance businesses in wake of market turmoil
South Korea’s DB Insurance last month bought stakes in Vietnam National Aviation Insurance JSC (VNI) and Saigon – Hanoi Insurance (BSH) equivalent to about 75 percent of each of the firms’ listed shares, Vietnam News is reporting. It also points out that Finland’s Pyn Elite, through the course of last
Survey finds lack of capital preventing Vietnamese businesses from borrowing
A total of 41 percent of businesses in a Ho Chi Minh City Business Association–known by the acronym HUBA–survey said they could not borrow capital because they had no unmortgaged collateral left, VN Express is reporting. The association argues that valuations on agricultural land are low and that inflation is
Speculation, gold prices driving exchange rate fluctuations: Opinion
The General Director of WiGroup, Tran Ngoc Bau, in an opinion piece in Doanh Nhan Vietnam, has said that exchange rate fluctuations at the start of the year are broadly the result of speculation. He says that: Tran goes on to argue that intervention in the exchange rate is not
Vietnam Gold Trade Association offers input re: pending gold market reforms
Doanh Nhan Vietnam is carrying comments from Huynh Trung Khanh, Vice President of the Vietnam Gold Trade Association. Specifically, Huynh uses the platform to: Of note, gold prices in Vietnam are generally around 20 percent higher than they are in the rest of the world. This is the result of
Private security market in Vietnam to be worth US$1.29 billion by 2027
An Allied Market Research report has found that Vietnam’s private security market is set to record a compounded annual growth rate of 7.9 percent a year between 2020 and 2027 at which point it will be worth US$1.29 billion. The security sector in Vietnam employs a huge number of people.