The consumer price index (CPI) in HCMC has fallen 0.29% this month after many months of constant rises, says the city’s Statistics Department. In a report released on Wednesday, the department said the March CPI shrinks 0.29% month-on-month with six out of the 11 commodities groups in the basket of goods used for CPI calculation recording price reductions. The group of goods and services has declined... 

Credit institutions described adjustments in prices of the items subject to State management as the greatest risk to inflation control in 2013, the Monetary Statistics and Forecast Department of the central bank said. As per a report on the latest survey of credit institutions done by the department, price adjustments are believed to have the biggest impact on inflation this year. The other factors... 

HANOI – The bad debt ratio of the banking system has dropped to 6%, versus 8.6% a few months ago, heard a regular press briefing of the Government on Thursday. Vu Duc Dam, minister-chairman of the Government Office, said the Government was concerned about the slow credit growth in the first two months. However, given the aims for both economic growth and inflation restraint this year, credit will... 

HCMC’s consumer price index (CPI) this month is forecast to rise 1% month-on-month as steep demand during the Tet holiday drove up prices, according to the HCMC Statistics Department. Ten of the 11 groups of goods have marked up while there is only one group having prices unchanged from last month. According to the department, the highest price increase of 3.34% belongs to the beverage-tobacco... 

With price increases in ten out of the eleven groups of items, the nation’s consumer price index (CPI) this January is up 1.25% against the preceding month. The group of medicine and healthcare services records the sharpest price hike of 7.4%, according to data revealed by the General Statistics Office on Thursday. The food and catering service group also sees significant growth of 1.34% over... 

The November consumer price index (CPI) increased a mere 0.47% month-on-month even though prices of nine out of eleven groups of items surged and many groups posted higher price growth than last month, according to the General Statistics Office. In a report announced last Saturday, GSO ascribed the inconsiderable surge of the national CPI to the slight decline of food and food catering services... 

Despite the low consumer price index in November, investors still stood on the sidelines last week as the VN-Index and average daily trade on the southern bourse were lower than the previous week. With four falling and one rising session, the VN-Index lost a combined 4.01 points last week and hit 381.7 on Friday. A familiar scenario of moving in a narrow range of the VN-Index expanded last week as... 

The price consumer index (CPI) in HCMC this month increases a mere 0.1% from the previous month with a price hike seen in eight out of eleven groups of commodities. According to the HCMC Statistics Department, the food and catering service group drops by 0.18% from October as food and dining-out service rise by only 0.01% and 0.16% respectively and foodstuffs fall by 0.5%. This is a sharp decline of... 

The Ministry of Finance is now in talks with foreign creditors over 22 credit agreements, and the amount having been tentatively approved in such loan agreements has reached some US$2.6 billion as of now, the ministry said. In a press statement on Monday, the ministry said that the loans are to replenish capital sources used for growth and economic recovery. Besides the agreements under negotiations,... 

Given the developments in the year to date and possibly influential factors in the final months, the whole-year inflation rate may be 8% as targeted, say the latest macro-economic reports of HSBC Vietnam and Vietcombank Securities Company. The report of HSBC remarks the consumer price index (CPI) had risen 7% year-on-year by the end of October. After a sudden increase in September, the monthly inflation...