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Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore are Wall Street’s darlings in Southeast Asia
US financial services majors Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Asset Management have given business news channel CNBC their top picks for investments in Southeast Asia...
Vietnam’s stock market Asia’s strongest so far this year
Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange
Vietnam’s stock market has evolved into Asia’s strongest this year, with...
Singapore beats Thailand in being Asia’s worst stock market this year
Singapore has outdone Thailand as Asia’s worst stock market in terms of share prices amid uncertainties of...
Thai stocks slump as anti-government protests add to uncertainty about the country’s economic health
Investors are not happy with political developments in Thailand © Arno Maierbrugger
Thai stocks on October 19 dropped...
Philippines suspends all visas, stock market collapses on virus fears
The Philippines will temporarily stop issuing visas to all foreigners and cancel existing ones amid the global...
Southeast Asian stocks nosedive as coronavirus keeps spreading
The Stock Exchange of Thailand experienced the worst drop among Southeast Asian bourses since the beginning of the year © Arno...
Vietnam wants 5% of population to own stocks
Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange © Arno Maierbrugger
The Vietnam government is encouraging its people to have...
New Vietnam Stock Exchange set up as umbrella for Hanoi and HCMC bourses
The Vietnam government has set up a new state-owned stock exchange company, Vietnam Stock Exchange (VSE), which will operate as an umbrella company for...
Vietnam overtook Singapore in IPO volume this year
Vietnam in 2018 topped Southeast Asia’s top grossing market for initial public offerings (IPOs) with total proceeds of $2.6 billion.
Singapore, who lost its crown...
Despite latest IPO, Myanmar’s stock exchange remains lame duck
The young Yangon Stock Exchange saw its first real initial public offering (IPO) on January 26, but despite high expectation of the listing of...
Market value of Vietnam’s “bikini airline” VietJet overtakes main rival
The market capitalisation of Vietnam's budget airline VietJet surpassed that of state-owned Vietnam Airlines on March 6 only a week after it was listed....
Bank Islam Brunei eyes stock listing – but not at home
Bank Islam Brunei Darussalam Bhd is exploring an initial public offering (IPO) which would be the first one of a company based in the...
Vietnam’s next big-ticket IPO just around the corner
Vietnam, Asia's number one beer drinking nation, will see its next huge initial public offering next week when Hanoi Beer Alcohol and Beverage Corp,...
Investors in a bet on Vietnamese stocks
Global investors have set their sight on Vietnamese stocks which have been outperforming their regional peers in the recent past but, according to analysts,...
Southeast Asian shares bounce back – China, Japan extend drop
Volatile stock markets in Asia on August 25 showed signs of a respite from the recent blood-letting, as bargain hunters helped most stocks off three-year...
Brunei to boost finance sector by launching its own stock exchange
Brunei Darussalam could soon drop off the global list of countries without a stock exchange, where it currently appears together with Cuba, Afghanistan, North...
Myanmar stock market to kick off in October
The Myanmar government has now confirmed that it will open its first-ever professional stock exchange, the Yangon Stock Exchange (YSE), in October this year...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...