Listed companies honoured for best investor relations

Fourteen listed companies were honoured with IR Awards for having the best investor relations in 2020 in HCM City on September 22.

Market growth may continue but pace is slow Vietnamese shares are widely expected to increase and hit new highs this week but the growth may be modest on weak market sentiment.

Equitising State-owned enterprises to boost growth amid COVID-19 Dr Burkhard Schrage, Senior Programme Manager of Management at RMIT’s School of Business & Management talked with Việt Nam News about the work of equitising state-owned enterprises during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shares to correct amid lack of positive news

Shares are forecast to experience volatility and correction this week because the absence of supportive information may negatively influence the stock price movement.

New traders flock to market

Of the new 100,000 accounts, 31,900 were opened in March and 36,700 were opened in April.

Markets rise on the back of large caps, banks Vietnamese shares tracked global markets higher on Wednesday, led by gains in banking stocks.

Trading remains quiet amid risk concerns Brokerage firms and market experts remain pessimistic about market trading this week as investors are running out of supportive information while international stocks continue being weighed down by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)-related concerns.

Lebanon PM says new cabinet faces 'catastrophe' as demos persist Lebanon faces a "catastrophe", Prime Minister Hassan Diab said Wednesday after his newly unveiled cabinet held its first meeting to tackle the twin challenges of a tenacious protest movement and a nosediving economy.

Việt Nam’s economy is expected to maintain good growth in 2020

Việt Nam is advancing into 2020 following good results in 2019. Experts and companies tell Việt Nam News about their forecasts of the country's economic prospects this year as well as opportunities and challenges facing the country.

Fintech firms worry about possible foreign ownership limit in payment intermediaries

A draft regulation put forward by the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) that would limit the foreign ownership rate in the payment intermediary service sector to 49 per cent was discussed at a workshop in Hà Nội yesterday.