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Below are the top 10 world events of 2019 voted for by the Vietnam News Agency.

Below are the top 10 world events of 2019 voted by the Vietnam News Agency.

Following a global trend of share buybacks, many Vietnamese businesses are now repurchasing their own stocks to stablise prices.

The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) has inaugurated its representative office in the US.

The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) inaugurated its representative office in the US, on November 1.

Speculative funds continued to flee the Philippines in September amid a spate of geopolitical issues which affected the flow of hot money globally.

Thailand’s GDP growth forecast for 2020 has been set at 2.5-3 percent by Kasikorn Research Centre (K-Research) as compared to 2.8 percent growth seen this year.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)'s exchange rate management policy has been appropriate and effective, creating benefits for the economy and confidence for the market.

Indonesia’s central bank (BI) slashed interest rates on September 19 for the third month in a row as Southeast Asia's biggest economy is affected by the US-China trade war and slow global growth.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)’s reference interest rate cut will allow credit institutions to access capital from central bank at a lower cost and stablise their own rates.

Vietnam’s fiscal deficit, including principal repayments, would come in at 6.6 percent of GDP this year and next year, up from 5.9 percent in 2018, Fitch Solutions Macro Research forecast.

In the first eight months of the year, the overall inflation was higher than the core inflation. This reflected that the price fluctuations were mainly due to the hike in prices of food, foodstuff, ga

The USD/VND exchange rate has grown strongly at the heart of the global fight over economic dominance between the US and China, the world’s two largest economies.

The US Federal Reserve (Fed)’s latest rate cut will benefit commodity and equity markets in the short term, according to specialist Nguyen Tri Hieu.

Prices of gold, real estate and stocks would be pushed up by the US Fed’s decision to reduce interest rates, a move that tends to make the US dollar lose value against other foreign currencies.

Among the 11 main commodity groups, nine experienced price rises while two saw the same price drop of 0.03 percent.

Indonesia has cut interest rates for the first time in nearly two years as Southeast Asia’s largest economy seeks to boost economic growth.

Local gold prices hit a two-year high on June 21 as the global market continued to heat up.

The consumer price index (CPI) between January and May increased by 2.74 percent from the same period last year – the slowest five-month pace over the last three years, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

The overall inflation hikes much higher than the core inflation, mainly due to increased fuel and electricity prices. However, the core inflation inched up by only 1.85 percent in the first five month