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The Vietnam stock market began the year on a high note, setting two new historic peaks within the first two trading sessions. The VN-Index, Vietnam’s benchmark stock index, closed at a record-breaking 1,788 points on Monday and escalated a further 1.56% to a…
On Friday, Vietnam’s key VN-Index experienced a significant drop of 3.06%, settling at 1,656.89 points, the lowest it’s seen since November 19. This marked the fourth consecutive session that the index has ended in negative territory. Trade Volume Soars on Ho…
Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index dropped 2.15% to 1,065.84 points Tuesday. The index closed 23.45 points lower after gaining 12.14 points on Monday. Trading on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) increased by 26.65% to VND12.17 trillion ($515.35 million). The…
Vietnam’s stock market was the world’s worst performer this week with an 8.5% decline. It was followed by Russia, down 4.8%, and Venezuela, down 1.87%, according to market data provider StockQ. Over the last four weeks Vietnam has been the world’s second…
Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index started off the week in the red with a 1.25 percent drop to 1,440.23 points Monday morning, the lowest in 11 weeks. The index fell by 17 points as of 11:06 a.m. after ending in the red in four out of the last six sessions. The…
The VN-Index began the new lunar year with a 1.5-percent jump Monday morning, led by aviation and energy stocks. It gained 22 points to 1,503 points at 11.20 as the market reopened after the nine-day Tet break, reaching a near four-week high. It represents a…
Vietnam’s stock market was the seventh biggest gainer last year at 35.7 percent, outperforming regional peers, as new retail investors rushed to a new asset for profit. With the benchmark VN-Index rising 394 points to close the year at 1,498 points, Vietnam…
More than 130,000 new investors opened stock trading accounts in October, including 129,750 local investors, according to the Vietnam Securities Depository. 129,200 of the local investors were retail ones. At the end of October there were over 3.86 million…
The number of new stock trading accounts opened by retail investors in May topped 113,670, a new monthly record, according to the Vietnam Securities Depository. May was the third month in a row in which more than 100,000 accounts were opened. There were 3.2…
The average daily securities trading value surged 5.6 times year-on-year in April to $725 million, nearly equivalent to that of Singapore, according to HSBC. The lender said in a recent report that the figure, which far exceeds those of Malaysia and…
The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange is set to raise the minimum number of shares that can be transacted in order from 50 to 100. It had planned to effect the change on January 18, but after testing and interaction with securities companies it has decided to…
Singapore Exchange (SGX) is growing its sustainability capabilities and initiatives with a $20 million ($15 million) plan. SGX is allocating half of the budget towards new ESG-focused products, services and platforms, while the other half will be used for…
Standard Chartered’s newly set up electronic pricing engine for global currencies completed its first-ever trade with promising improvements to efficiency. The trade was executed earlier this week with counterparty UOB and resulted in a reduction in trade…
Tokyo stocks closed lower on Tuesday following media reports saying Indian warplanes crossed into Pakistani airspace over the ceasefire line in Kashmir and dropped payloads. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index, which opened higher, lost 0.37%, or 78.84 points, to…
Wall Street’s three major indexes ended higher on Monday but well below the session’s highs after President Donald Trump said he would delay a planned hike in tariffs on Chinese imports. Postponement of the tariff deadline was seen as the clearest sign yet…
At over VND3 trillion ($129.21 million), foreign buying in the local bourses from February 1-25 is three times the January figure. Foreign investment since the beginning of the year has been worth over VND4.3 trillion ($185.16 million). They have been…
