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Foreign investors have withdrawn just shy of US$1.11 billion from the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange this year, VN Express is reporting. Key points made include: Active funds are not performing well and shareholders are putting pressure on fund managers to withdraw funds, Foreign funds are restructuring due to risk

Vietnam had just 8 IPOs last year compared to 42 in Thailand and 59 in Indonesia, Vietnam News is reporting. The publication’s core argument is that a lack of IPOs, and subsequently diversity, is a turn off for foreign investors. Of note, Thailand and Indonesia are both considered ‘emerging’ markets

A man in Danang was using 76 accounts belonging to 21 investors to manipulate the price of a real estate firm listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange, The Investor is reporting. He has subsequently been banned from trading for two years and fined US$61,000. See also: Stock market

The HoSE has finished the week slightly down on yesterdays close after a pretty good week relative to the week before. The benchmark index dropped 12.21 points today to finish at 1,101.68 points, down 1.10 percent, according to HoSE data. Foreign investors net sold US$9.6 million worth of stocks, pulling

The HoSE has finished up today but only marginally, gaining 0.46 points or 0.04 percent to finish the day at 1,113.89, according to HoSE data. That said, foreign investors bailed on the market en masse withdrawing VND 806 billion or US$33.1 million. Foreign investor trades on HoSE from November 4

The number of Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange retail trading accounts opened fell below the number of accounts closed in Ocotober, VN Express is reporting. Just 167,700 accounts were opened in October. Furthermore, in the same month 545,400 accounts were closed. The article points out that traders are allowed to

The Ho Chi Ming Stock Exchange has bounce back from yesterday’s fall gaining 33.14 points today pushing it well and truly over then 1,100 point mark. This was a gain of 3.07 percent, according to HoSE data. Foreign investors, however, were less bullish withdrawing VND 266 billion from the market

The HoSE has ended its four day up-streak finishing Tuesday down o.86 percent, according to HoSE data. Foreign traders got in on the sell-off action too, net-shedding almost US$11 million worth of stocks. The most popular stock for foreign traders in terms of trade turnover was Mobile World Group with

The Ho Chi Minh City has started the week on a positive note, finishing Monday at 1,089.66 points, up 1.2 percent on Friday’s close, according to HoSE data. It wasn’t just local traders buying either. Foreign investors net bought almost US$14.5 million worth of stocks, a promising sign at the

The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) started October in an interesting place. The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) was in the midst of a series of treasury bill issues with billions of dong being pulled from the market every day. Uncertainty over the impact this would have on the

The HoSE has finished the week up again, with a 1.31 point rise or 0.12 percent to close at 1,076.78, according to HoSE data. Foreign traders bought back into the market today to the tune of US$10 million. Foreign investor trades on HoSE from October 30 to November 3 Buy

The HoSE smashed it Thursday finishing up a phenomenal 35.81 points or 3.44 percent to close at 1,075.47. Real estate and construction firms were four of the top five performers. This is year another in a series of wild swings with investors uncertain about the direction of the economy. Of

The Vietnamese government intends to crackdown on traders that manipulate the stock market in the wake of a number of high profile arrests, The Investor is reporting. This has come about after it was revealed that the head of real estate firms FLC, Trinh Van Quyet, used friends and family

The fortunes of the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange turned around today finishing the day up for the first time this week, according to HOSE data. The index gained 11.47 points or 1.12 percent. Foreign traders, however, went the other way, exiting the market to the tune of US$4.4

The VN-Index has had another rocky day ending the day down 14.21 points or 1.36 percent at 1,028.19, according to HOSE data. Vietnam’s primary stock market is now well below its September high when it went over 1,240 points. This comes on the back of weak business results as the

The HOSE slid 18.22 points or 1.72 percent in the first trading session of the week, according to HOSE data. This comes after a troubling week in which the local bourse fell over forty points in one day and rounded out the week 47 points down on a week earlier.

The VN-Index ended last week 47.41 points down on its close Friday of the week before, and this was partly a result of ‘rumours and tricks’, Tuoi Tre is reporting. This, however, is not exactly true. The drop of 40 points last Thursday appears to have been driven by a

It’s been swings and roundabouts this week for the HOSE but it has managed to finish the week on a positive note, up 5.17 points or 0.49 percent at close of business today, according to HOSE data. This was credited to domestic traders, however, with foreign traders net withdrawing VND

Yesterday the VN-Index dropped 40 points straight-up on the back of Vingroup announcing it would issue more bonds to cover bonds that were maturing, Reuters has reported. Reuters is referencing ‘traders and stock brokers’ as saying this reworking of bond debt may have ‘raised concerns about Vingroup’s financial status. Note