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Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index fell 0.19% to 1,243.14 points on September 7 after six consecutive sessions in the green, with the total trading volume estimated at over 28.046 trillion VND.

Vietnam's benchmark VN-Index rose 0.85% (10,52 points) to 1,245.5 points on September 6, continuing its sixth session in the green.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose by 0.89% during the first trading session after the National Day holiday, supported by stocks in the banking sector.

VN-Index increased 0.90% to 1,224.05 points on August 31 in its fourth session in the green.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index increased 0.72% to 1213.16 points on August 30 highest since August 30, with the total trading volume estimated at over 20.9 trillion VND.

Vietnam enjoyed a trade surplus of 20.19 billion USD in the first eight months of this year, according to data released by the General Statistics Office (GSO) on August 29.

Vietnam’s stock market witnessed a strong surge on August 28, with the benchmark VN-Index ending the first trading day of the week up 1.55%.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index dropped 0.51% to 1,183.37 points on August 25.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index dropped 7.93 points (0.67%) to 1,172.56 points on August 23.

Vietnam’s stock market witnessed a dramatic trading session on August 22, with the benchmark VN-Index losing by over 30 points before recovering to close the day up 0.06%.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose 0.15% to 1179.76 points August 21.

The US is currently Vietnam's second largest trading partner. In 2022, Vietnam's export turnover to the US reached 109.38 billion USD, marking the first export market of surpassing 100 billion USD. In the first half of 2023, complicated fluctuations in the global economic and geopolitical environment have caused many challenges for Vietnam's exports to the world as well as the US.

Vietnam's agricultural exports to the Republic of Korea (RoK) still have many opportunities to expand and grow when Vietnam and RoK have signed and implemented free trade agreements, including the ASEAN- Korea Free Trade Agreement (AKFTA), the Vietnam-Korea Free Trade Agreement (VKFTA), and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose 0.75% to 1243.26 points on August 16.

VN-Index dropped 0.23% to 1,234.05 points on August 15.

Within the framework of the official visit to Iran by National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, the leaders of the Directorate of Standards, Metrology and Quality under the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Iran National Standards Organisation signed a cooperation agreement on standardisation, conformity assessment, accreditation, metrology, and Halal.

The signing ceremony of cooperation agreement on forming a pork trading floor in Ho Chi Minh City among the Mercantile Exchange of Vietnam (MXV), the City Department of Industry and Trade and Department of Agriculture and Rural Development was held successfully on August 14.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose 0.38% (4.63 points) to 1,236.84 points on August 14, continuing to go uptrend.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose by 0.95% or 11.60 points on August 8 to end the final trading day of the week at 1,232.21, supported by gains in the stocks of Vingroup and commercial banks.

VN-Index lost 13.38 points (1.08%) to 1,220.61 points on August 10, its biggest fall since March 20.

Vietnam's benchmark VN-Index rose 0.07% (0.81 points)  to 1,242.23 points on August 8 as VIC of private conglomerate Vingroup made a breakthrough and a series of small and medium-sized stocks were on the rise at the end of the session. 

Vietnam now has a great opportunity to expand its rice market share in the UK after India, the biggest supplier of the grain to this market, banned the export, said Trade Counsellor Nguyen Canh Cuong at the Vietnamese Trade Office in the UK.

On August 7, Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose 1.26% to 1241.42 points.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose by 1.24% or 15.03 points on August 4 to end the week at 1,225.98, supported by gains in the stocks of property companies.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose 0.24% to 1220.43 points on August 2, still hovering around a 10-month peak.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose 1.26% to 1222.9 points on July 31.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index dropped 0.29% to 1,197.33 points on July 27.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose 0.41% (4.82 points)  to 1,190.72 points on July 24

The UK is set to recognise that Vietnam’s industries are operating in a market economy and will not impose unfavourable rules should they be investigated under trade defence measures, according to the Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose by 13.09 points (1.12%) to 1,185.9 points on July 21.