
Stocks, dollar sink, bonds pummelled again as trade war roils markets
World 11:48 11/04/2025SINGAPORE - Global stocks slumped and the dollar sank further on Friday, while a manic bond selloff took hold in a brutal end to the week of tit-for-tat worldwide tariffs that have fed fears of a deep recession and shaken investor confidence in U.S. assets.

Vietnam’s forex reserves at all-time high of $92bn: gov’t
Economy 15:40 08/09/2020The reserves grew $40.5 billion in less than three years

Vietnam scraps fine for unlicensed forex transactions valued below $1,000
Economy 14:28 21/11/2019The new decree was proposed following a controversial case in 2018

Hertz says will launch one-way car rental service after Vietnam entry
Economy 10:15 30/08/2019Customers will be able to pick up their rental car at one airport and return it at another

Remittance to Ho Chi Minh City to top $5.2bn in 2017: cbank
Economy 12:04 24/12/2017There has been a steady rise in inward remittances over the final months of 2017

Vietnam’s central bank to maintain zero percent interest-rate on US dollar savings
Economy 13:40 20/12/2017‘It’s not the right time to increase the interest rate yet’

Vietnam has enough cash for intervention regardless of any FED move: cbank
Economy 18:05 24/09/2015With about US$40 billion in foreign exchange reserves, the State Bank of Vietnam will intervene in the forex market to shore up the value of the local currency, whether the U.S. Federal Reserve raises interest rates or not

In Vietnam, US dollar appreciation makes some quite happy, leaves others in trouble
Economy 17:35 20/05/2015The State Bank of Vietnam, the central bank of the Southeast Asian country, on May 7 allowed the local currency to lose another one percent against the greenback, after taking the same move in the middle of January

Strengthening US dollar stirs concerns over further depreciation of Vietnam currency
Economy 20:16 18/03/2015The official exchange rates between the Vietnamese dong and the dollar quoted at many state-run and joint-stock commercial bank have surged around 0.5-0.6 percent compared to those of late last week following the appreciation of the greenback on the world market

Vietnam cbank stocking foreign currencies after intervening in forex market
Economy 20:26 19/01/2015The State Bank of Vietnam is buying foreign currencies from the local market to increase the national foreign exchange reserves, a move it stopped for five months

Vietnam cbank to keep USD-VND fluctuating within 2% in 2015 to alleviate dollarization
Economy 16:11 26/12/2014The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has said it will keep the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Vietnamese dong changing within two percent next year to help reduce dollarization and stabilize the local currency’s value

Vietnam received over $80.4 bln inbound remittances in 1991-2013
Economy 14:30 21/12/2014Experts predict inward remittances will continue to increase over the period 2015-2016, but will decrease slightly from 2017.