Viet Nam’s total retail sales and service revenue rose 8.3 per cent year-on-year to over VND863.9 trillion (US$37.4 billion) in the first two months of this year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Viet Nam this year would have opportunities to continue increasing rice exports to Senegal, as well as Africa as a whole, due to high demand from those markets, the Viet Nam Trade Office in Algeria said.

A majority of business enterprises in the central economic and tourism hub Da Nang said they are in need of support from the Government in coping with the adverse effect of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in a meeting with the city’s leaders on Wednesday.

Margin lending may be allowed on the Unlisted Pubic Company Market (UPCoM), the State Securities Commission (SSC) vice chairman Pham Hong Son said on Wednesday.

Plummeting global oil prices over the past month are hurting the stock prices of Vietnamese oil and gas companies, tinnhanhchungkhoan.vn reported on Wednesday.

Vietnamese shares gained narrowly as investors took use of intra-day growth to stave off risks and foreign investors remained net sellers.

The dollar found its footing on Thursday as upbeat jobs data helped it recoup a little of its slide against the euro and it steadied on the yen after the U.S. Federal Reserve’s surprise rate cut.

The 10-year Treasury yield briefly fell below 1% again on Wednesday only to double back and trade higher after the federal government announced an $8 billion spending package to help fight the spread of the coronavirus.

Oil prices fell on Wednesday despite expectations that major producers have moved closer to an agreement to enact deeper output cuts aimed at offsetting the slump in demand caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

Gold prices were little changed on Thursday as stronger equities and upbeat U.S. data countered fears that the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak would slow the global economy.