A banking-enterprises link-up programme in HCM City has enabled 4,138 businesses to borrow over VND124.3 trillion (US$5.5 billion) from banks in the first five months of this year, a conference heard on Friday.
Credit growth expanded 6.53 per cent in the first five months of the year, contributing significantly to the growth of domestic production and business.
Software provider FPT announced its revenue during past five months
reached nearly VND14.6 trillion (US$653 million), earning a before-tax
profit of more than VND1 trillion.
Credit in the first five months of 2016 grew 5.48 per cent compared to
the end of 2015, the highest for the past few years, according to the
State Bank of Viet Nam''s Credit Department.
State-owned enterprises sold shares worth more than VND2.08 trillion (US$93.2 million) in book value for VND4.17 trillion ($186.3 million) in the first five months of 2016.
Viet Nam''s total retail sales and services revenue reached VND1,430 trillion (US$63.4 billion) in the first five months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 9.1 per cent, officials said.
Viet Nam gained a year-on-year increase of 10.4 per
cent in the value of farm, forestry and aquatic exports to US$12.1
billion during the first five months of this year.
