FPT Corporation overcame challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic in both the global and domestic market to achieve positive financial results in the first half of the year, especially in core business lines.
The VN Index rose 0.3 per cent to 779.05 points on Monday morning as banks continued their show of strength, backed by solid earnings in the first half of 2017.
Vietinbank on Monday reported a profit of VND4.273 trillion
(US$190.75 million) in the first half of the year, up 10.3 per cent
against the same period last year.
While the local stock market was waiting for the listing of major
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) that were to go public, the Ministry of
Finance reported that the pace of equitisation in the first half of 2016
had not reached its target.
The Ha Noi Stock Exchange (HNX) has mobilised VND212 trillion (US$9.46
billion) in Government bonds for the State budget in the first half of
this year.
Viet Nam gained a 33 per cent year-on-year increase in the fruit and
vegetable export value to reach US$1.17 billion for the first half of
2016, officials said.
The budget deficit in the first half of the year hit VND82.9 trillion
(US$3.7 billion) due to rising recurrent expenditures and the repayment
of debts, the General Statistics Office reported.
Exports of agricultural, forestry and fishery products in the first half
of 2016 rose 5.4 per cent year-on-year to US$15.05 billion, according
to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
