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Narrowing the gap between registered and disbursed investment

Since the beginning of this year, Vietnam has attracted more than US$45 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) capital. This is a positive sign but also poses a number of challenges to the country...The country’s infrastructure and human resources are two key factors that will help to narrow the gap between registered and disbursed foreign investment capital
Complete Equitization by 2010: A Target That May be Hard to Achieve

The government has set a target of equitizing all enterprises by 2010, but this target may not be achieved due to economic difficulties which have affected the stock markets since the end of last year. (Read more...)
No worry about high VND/US$ exchange rate

Le Xuan Nghia, Director of the Banking Development Strategy Department under the State Bank of Vietnam, said that the high trade deficit, expected to reach $19-20bil in 2008, will not greatly affect the exchange rate. (Read more...)
Vietnamese banks: foreign investor magnets
While domestic investors are indifferent to bank shares as they think that banks will have a difficult year in 2008 due to the government’s tightened monetary policy, foreign investors are planning to buy Vietnamese bank shares at high prices. Read more...
Stopping sales of mortgaged shares the right move
Le Xuan Nghia, Director of the Banking Development Strategy Department under the State Bank of Vietnam, applauds the decision on stopping the selling of mortgaged shares. Read more...
Bank heads arrive for conference
Banking leaders from around the world yesterday gathered for the first day of a three-day conference run by a well known Singapore-based private company. The Asian Banker, to discuss financial risks in an unchartered age. Read more...
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Stock market rules to free up, says SSC
Experts expect that Vietnam's stock market will loosen limitations on foreign investors and may even allow hedge funds to operate on the growing exchange.
How will the stock market perform after PIT law?
Many securities investors have voiced concern that the personal income tax (PIT) law ratified by the National Assembly, which says that capital gains from stock investments will be subject to a 20% levy, on November 19, will make the market gloomier...
Capital gain tax on securities draws fire!
The National Assembly on Tuesday approved the Law on Personal Income Tax, which will tax capital gains on securities trading at 20%; a compromise on the 25-per-cent rate originally included in the draft law. Viet Nam News spoke to investors and economists about the impact the tax may have on the market.
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