July has been a contrasted month for the Vietnamese stock markets. After three consecutive months of fall, the HOSE index has rebounded with a solid monthly performance. the Hanoi Stock Exchange performance was far less impressive with a monthly gain slightly inferior to 1%. This performance difference between the two indexes can be explained by the fact that in the first half of the year roughly two-thirds of the earnings were contributed by large-cap firms and that most lar

September has been another good month for Vietnamese investors. September is also traditionally a strong month in terms of paid dividends and this year was no different. In average, almost a third of the annual dividends are paid in September. On the economic side, Gross domestic product rose 7.46% in the third quarter from a year earlier, compared with a revised 6.28% in the previous three months, the General Statistics Office said in Hanoi on Friday. This strong growth has

Why invest in Vietnam? A thousand years ago, the economic centre of the world was in Asia. Today, it seems clear that the world’s economic centre of gravity is shifting back to Asia. Vietnam is ideally located. It has a long coastline with many ports and shares a border with southern China, and is thus close to large metropolitan and economic hubs such as Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. The country's geographic position is one of its many assets and has encouraged firms to