With price pressures relatively contained, HSBC expected the SBV to remain accommodative and keep its policy rate steady through its forecast horizon, at 4.50%.
To encourage businesses to invest and consumers to use environmentally friendly vehicles, the Ministry of Finance has proposed a special consumption tax (SCT) rate for...
Politics and monetary policy continue to dominate FX market sentiment and this is unlikely to change in the short-term.
The economy went through the first half of the year, inflation is still under control and forecast to reach the target set by the National Assembly and the Government....
According to economic expert Associate Professor, PhD. Ngo Tri Long (photo), former Director of the Price Market Research Institute (Ministry of Finance), inflation is...
The continuation of the VAT reduction is expected to boost consumer demand as lower prices due to the 2% VAT cut will translate into higher purchasing power, especially...
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) may need to hike policy rates to relieve pressure on foreign exchange reserves and manage stubbornly high inflation.
Directive No. 40-CT/TW issued on November 22, 2014, by the Central Committee of the 11th Party Congress, focusing on enhancing the Party's leadership over social policy...
The Vietnamese Government has recently disseminated a decree that extends the deadline for the payment of special consumption tax on domestically manufactured and...
According to financial analyst Nguyễn Lê Ngọc Hoàn, many central banks worldwide are considering cutting rates and starting a new cycle of monetary easing.
A firm policy framework is crucial to nurture the creative economy, one with “unlimited” development potential, according to Dr. Tran Thi Hong Minh, Director of the...
In recent directives, the monetary policy regulatory body continues to urge banks to implement practical and effective solutions to strive for credit growth across the...
The rice trade between Vietnam and the Philippines is forecast to remain steady in the near future, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in the Philippines.
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) this year removed the credit growth quota for foreign banks, but the policy remains for Vietnamese banks, due to concerns about rising...
Euro/US dollar has basically not moved for eighteen months and yet the market narrative about monetary policy from the two central banks has shifted a lot this year with...
In the context of a rapidly changing and unpredictable situation, Associate Professor, PhD. Tran Hoang Ngan, member of the National Assembly's Economic Committee, a...
There’s still some very low funding rates out there (the yen), while prior monetary policy tightening elsewhere means that policy rates are high and interest rate...
The Ministry of Finance has actively researched, urgently developed and submitted to competent authorities for promulgation according to its authority legal policies...
Public opinion on current developments and expectations for the future are self-evidently of crucial importance for policymakers, and perhaps no more so than when...
In the Standard Bank’s view, and probably the view of everybody else, there are two main scenarios for the path of the US economy and Fed policy.
Recently, the Ministry of Finance has proactively researched, proposed, and submitted to competent authorities as well as issued financial support policies for the...
Austrian ECB member, and noted hawk Robert Holzman described the Fed as being the “gorilla in the room” when it comes to ECB decisions on policy easing.
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