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Foreign investors have been acquiring major stakes in financial companies in Vietnam in recent years and the trend is expected to continue in 2017.

Foreign Direct Investment poured into Vietnam’s agriculture accounts for a small share in the total. Investment amount of a FDI project in the sector is below a half of an average of other fields'.

The Republic of Korea, Japan and China’s Taiwan were the top three investors in the southern province of Dong Nai in the first 10 months of 2016.

Fitch Ratings has released a report on Vietnam’s banking sector, saying that Vietnam’s strong economic performance is helping the country attract much-needed foreign capital into its banking system.

A bright economic outlook and strong foreign capital inflows have made Vietnam’s financial market among the five best performing markets in the world.

Foreign capital inflows into Vietnam’s securities market in the first half of this year increased 3.5-fold on a yearly basis, reaching 722 million USD.

Foreign capital inflow to Vietnam, especially to the mechanical engineering industry is expected to surge in the upcoming times.

More capital continues flowing into HCM City’s real estate sector as local companies and foreign partners join hands to take advantage of the new housing law.

The Department for Economic Zones Management reported that during Q1, the country opened 305 industrial parks covering over 84,000 hectares and 16 economic zones covering 814,792 hectares of water and

The capitalization of Vietnam’s stock market was estimated at more than 1,325 trillion VND (58.8 billion USD), equal to 34 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Products (GDP), this year.

Mai Xuan Hung, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Committee for Economic Affairs, spoke to the newspaper Thoi bao Kinh te (Vietnam Economic Times) about the Vietnamese private economic sector.

Foreign firms have pumped hundreds of millions of US dollars into numerous real estate projects in HCM City, attributed to an upswing in the real estate market after a long period of hibernation.