Cement, petroleum and retail stocks are those that could see strong rises in 2021.

Following a volatile 2018 which witnessed the US-China trade war, the stock market in 2019 was gloomy with the VN Index hovering around 900-1,000 points.

 The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) has received dozens of documents from listed companies asking to extend the deadline for the disclosure of this year's financial statements.

The business results of listed companies in the first nine months of the year were fairly positive. But the unpredictability of the negotiations related to the US-China trade still exists.

The number of companies which listed shares or are planning to list shares in 2019 remains very modest.

 Vietnam’s stock market is forecast to face a range of hurdles in 2016, said Vu Bang, Chairman of the State Securities Commission of Vietnam (SSC) at a ceremony to round out the top ten stock market events in 2015 in Hanoi on December 28.

 Gains of blue chips last week helped lift the VN-Index over the strong resistance landmark of 600 points on the HCM Stock Exchange.

 Shares advanced last week, boosted by large-cap stocks on both national stock exchanges.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Contrary to investors’ expectations, the State Securities Commission’s (SSC) plan to lift the ceiling on foreign ownership ratio in listed companies to over 49 percent has not been approved.

 Stocks cheered a full week of gains on both exchanges last week as large-cap shares advanced.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese investors have lost billions of dollars overnight because of heavy fluctuations in the asset markets.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many big foreign investors came to Vietnam with heavy bags of money, but later trucked the bags back home, unable to find any satisfactory places into which to pour their cash.

The stock market fell sharply Thursday morning, possibly due to the psychological impact of the East Sea conflict between Vietnam and China. The session saw the biggest one-day decline since 2001. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - Over 70 percent of the 355 million shares offered for the first time by state-owned enterprises could not find a buyer in the past three months.

 Shares rose again last week on both national bourses with the VN-Index increasing 0.82 per cent to reach 601.75 and the HNX-Index surging 7.02 per cent to reach 90.6 points.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In 2014, the government will drastically restructure state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and a series of large SOEs will perform initial public offerings (IPO) and listing.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The authorities have granted nearly 360 individual transaction codes for foreign investors in the January-October period, 2.5 times higher than the same period in 2012.

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