PE Ratios and What They Mean for Your Portfolio

A share’s price/earnings (PE) ratio is a key way of assessing whether it is trading at fair value and therefore if it is a good buy or not. This week, our expat financial services expert Brian Spence explains why PE ratios are so important in managing your investment portfolio.

Purchasing power soars by 8.5%

The purchasing power in the total national retail value of goods and services until April 2018 reached nearly VNĐ1.40 trillion ($61.4 million), the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported.

VN Int’l Café Show 2018 opens

As many as 100 food and beverages (F&B) enterprises from 12 countries are displaying their products at the Việt Nam International Café Show 2018 which opened yesterday (May 3) in HCM City.

Industrial growth soars in first four months

The period’s strong IIP rise was attributable to the fact that many industrial firms have took full advantages of the State policies in cutting off business condition and speeding administrative reforms to expand their operations and markets for their products, according to statisticians from the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Petrol traders urged to lift bio market share

Wholesale petrol traders should make more efforts to raise the market share of bio-fuel E5 in the country, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade (MoIT) Đỗ Thắng Hải.

HCM City eyes boost to supporting industries

HCM City will continue to focus on developing supporting industries, and targets meeting 45 per cent of national demand for manufactured inputs by 2020 and 65 per cent by 2025. 

VN investors seek spots at DC summit

More than 30 Vietnamese investors participated in a seminar held yesterday (May 3) as part of the US Mission to Việt Nam’s ongoing recruitment for the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, DC in June.

VN-Index declines a second day

Investors increased bargain purchases in yesterday’s afternoon trade when the benchmark VN-Index retreated near 1,000 points, but this was not enough to help the market close in green when foreign traders accelerated selling.

FPT Retail allowed to raise charter capital

State Securities Commission has approved FPT Digital Retail JSC (FRT) to issue additional 28 million shares to existing shareholders to raise its charter capital in the second quarter of 2018.

ASEAN+3 economies to grow slower in 2018-19

Half of the ASEAN+3 economies are projected to grow at a slower pace in the next two years, reducing the region’s overall growth rate, reports the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO).

VN-RoK trade relations flourish

Việt Nam has become the favourite new destination for investors from the Republic of Korea (RoK)—a shift that Việt Nam welcomes as evidence of its growing economic stature.

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