Vietnam’s equity market witnessed a robust earnings rebound in the first quarter of 2025, as nearly a thousand listed companies disclosed financial results showing widespread improvement across sectors.
The Vietnamese equity market boasts strong potential to become a major source of financing for the private sector, according to specialists from the World Bank.
Vietnam remains in the watch list for a possible reclassification from frontier to secondary emerging market status, according to FTSE Russel’s Country Classification review in March.
Malaysia's financial system and equity market have continued to function in a sound and orderly manner without any disruption to financial intermediation, according to Malaysian Finance Minister Zafrul Abdul Aziz.
The development of the equity market will help promote the transparency and corporate governance of listed companies, especially public companies with State capital, an official has said.
Vietnam’s equity market may witness big merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in 2021 as local banks are trying to lure foreign capital on the country’s participation in international trade deals.
If serious turbulence is caused by large-scale sell-offs and considered a threat to the security of the equity market, the Ministry of Finance will have to switch the market off.
Most investment funds in Vietnam’s equity market reported negative growth in net asset value per share (NAVPS) in H1 due to a stock market downturn, resulting from the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Foreign investors are edging back into emerging markets like Vietnam on hopes the recent significant recovery of the equity market will reassure those hoping to capitalise on stronger economic growth in the emerging world.
Over the past year, most investment funds in Vietnam’s equity market have seen negative growth in net asset value per share (NAVPS) due to the poor performance of the market indices.
Analysts and securities firms are hoping Vietnamese shares will perform better in 2019, but there are still many challenges that will clearly weigh on market sentiment.
Most investment funds in Vietnam’s equity market have recorded modest gains and were beaten by the growth of the benchmark VN-Index in the past three quarters.
