Gold products were sold out at a number of stores amid a sharp increase in customers compared to previous days during the God of Wealth Day on February 25.

Vietnamese stocks are expected to rise further with the benchmark VN-Index forecast to surpass its all-time peak of 1,170 in 2007 on rising investor confidence in the market outlook, analysts say.

Analysts expect the real estate market, especially the residential land segment, to continue to grow solidly this year thanks to huge infrastructure works in many places around the country accompanies by a raft of property developments.

Trade between Việt Nam and Ukraine was valued at US$35.5 million last month, an increase of 22.2 per cent year-on-year, according to the General Department of Customs.

Australia will cut 90 per cent of import tariff lines in 2018 and 100 per cent of them in 2020 under the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA) roadmap, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Export turnover of agro-forestry-aquatic products in February this year was estimated at US$2.6 billion, raising the total value in the first two months of 2018 to $6.1 billion, up 30.2 per cent against the same period last year.

Thành Thành Công Biên Hòa Sugar JSC (TTCS) announced post-tax profits for the first half of the fiscal year 2017-18 of VNĐ260 billion (US$11.5 million), a yearly increase of 49.4 per cent.

State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) has asked credit institutions to limit their lending to the real estate and construction sectors to better control bad debts.

The Government and the State Securities Commission plan to carry out some key measures to develop the stock market in a rapid and effective but safe manner, Minister of Finance Đinh Tiến Dũng has said.