January 23, 2012
Vietnam’s benchmark stock index on January 19 rose the most in seven months and the currency rallied to a one-month high on speculation the central bank will cut interest rates and limit declines in the dong. The Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange’s VN Index climbed 3 percent to 373.43 at the 11 a.m. [...]
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May 4, 2011
An Afghan mother, who lost relatives in Afghanistan’s wars is pictured in 2010 cradling a child at a mass grave on the outskirts of Kabul. Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a mother and Norway is the best, an annual report released Tuesday said. “Afghanistan has the highest lifetime risk of [...]
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February 21, 2011
Vietnam’s stocks tumbled the most since November 2009 after the government said it will raise electricity prices by a record 15.3 percent, spurring concern the government will step up measures to curb inflation. The Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange’s VN Index slumped 4 percent, the most among Asian benchmark gauges today, to 483.68 [...]
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February 18, 2011
A dusty street in Hanoi A study on environmental and climate protection covering 22 major Asian cities ranks Hanoi below average, electronics giant Siemens AG announced Monday in a press release. Â The Asian Green City Index, compiled over the past few months by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), includes Hanoi in the same category [...]
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January 9, 2010
A group of investors from Thailand visited Vietnamâs main stock exchange in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, looking for investment opportunities. Economist Le Dat Chi of the HCMC Economics University said Vietnamâs stock market was really attractive for Thai investors as both the economy and the stock index grew at impressive rates last year [...]
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January 8, 2010
Vietnamâs stock index, the worldâs best performer since the start of the year, may gain a further 30 percent by the end of 2010 as corporate earnings improve, according to Vietnam Asset Management Ltd. Consumer, banking and construction stocks may outperform the benchmark index this year as the economy recovers, Nguyen Xuan Minh, chief executive [...]
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January 8, 2010
Investor Mark Mobius said he may buy more shares in the âparticularly cheapâ frontier markets of Vietnam, Nigeria, Kazakhstan and Ukraine even as developing nations face a âcorrectionâ that may exceed 20 percent. âWeâre finding some very interesting opportunities in those markets,â Mobius, who oversees US$34 billion of developing-nation assets at Templeton Asset Management Ltd., [...]
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January 1, 2010
Vietnam plans to boost stocks liquidity by loosening restrictions on the sale of equities next month, said Vu Bang, chairman of the State Securities Commission. The regulator will reduce by one day the minimum period in which buyers have to hold onto shares before selling them, the regulator said in an interview in Hanoi wednesday. [...]
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December 31, 2009
The dollar rose slightly against major currencies on Tuesday amid a couple of positive U.S. economic reports. The 10-city and 20-city composite indexes both rose 0.4 percent in October, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home price report. Seasonally adjusted prices increased for the fifth straight month in October. Prices are up about 3.5 percent from their [...]
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December 21, 2009
Investors monitor trades at offices of Saigon Securities Inc. The VN-Index closed at 443.34 points on Friday, a net loss on the week of just 0.82 per cent. LookAtVietnam – The sell-off by margin traders that has sent the HCM City Stock Exchange plummeting in recent weeks eased last week, carrying the VN-Index to a [...]
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