• Banks set to lower rates amid business complaints

      13/04/2010

    VietNamNet Bridge –Banks will cut interest rates in response to companies’ complaints about preventively high borrowing costs, said the central bank.

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  • US companies to invest more, seek flexible trade conditions

      13/04/2010

    HA NOI — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung witnessed two co-operation agreements signed between Vietnamese groups and US partners yesterday while attending the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington.  

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  • High interest rates a brake on expansion

      13/04/2010
    HCM CITY — Many small and medium-sized companies are considering shifting to other businesses or cutting production levels because of the high interest rates on bank loans.  
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  • State Bank moves, penny stocks sustain markets

      12/04/2010

    HA NOI — Investor sentiment on the nation's stock markets improved throughout last week, helped by measures by the State Bank of Viet Nam to ease interest rate pressures, lifting the VN-Index to a close on Friday of 517.46 points, a gain of 1.36 per cent from the previous week.  

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  • Dong/dollar 2010 exchange rate unpredictable

      12/04/2010

    VietNamNet Bridge – Overseas remittances, foreign direct investment capital and foreign currency credit have all helped cool the foreign currency market. Yet economists still cast dubious eyes at the dong/dollar exchange rate performance for 2010.  

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