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Day: March 12, 2024

Vietnam C.bank starts issuing T-bills to reduce pressure on dong

The State Bank of Vietnam issued VND 14.999 trillion or US$609 million yesterday in a  renewed attempt to halt the devaluation of the local currency, The Investor is reporting. Key takeaways: Overnight loans account for 90 percent of transactions and were attracting an interest rate of 1.17 percent on March

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Vietnam’s Stock Market Upgrade Opportunity: Unpacked

Over the course of 2023, foreign investors exited their positions in the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange–or the HoSE–to the tune of more than US$1 billion.  This mass exodus could have been for any number of reasons: demand in key export markets was faltering, several financial crimes had been

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This opinion piece in support of redesignating Vietnam a market economy

John Borton, a non-resident senior fellow at Johns Hopkins/SAIS Foreign Policy Institute, has written an opinion piece for the Geopolitical Monitor in which he argues for making Vietnam a market economy. Borton argues that: There would be bilateral benefits in market access and export opportunities; Other countries have already done

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