Thai Investors Seeks Opportunities in Vietnams Stock Market
Thai investors of BFIT Securities Public Company Limited and Thomson Reuters Group arrived Vietnam July 17 to seek investment opportunities in the countrys stock market.
 
On the occasion, Ban Viet Securities Co. held a conference "Vietnam and Investment Opportunities" to help introduce the overview of Vietnams economy to Thai investors.
 
The local stock broker also made a guide on procedures to securities trading accounts for individual and institutional investors.
 
The Vietnams stock market has lost 46 per cent of its value since the start of this year, and this is a good time for investors to return to the market, Ban Viet said.
 
The market has been bullish since early July thanks to investors improved confidence and belief in the governments inflation-curbing measures in the remaining months of 2008, the newspaper said.
 
Ban Viet also informed Thai investors of Vietnam seafood enterprises as it said seafood is a potential sector that may bring huge profit to securities players.
 
In the first half, foreign investors pumped US$600 million in Vietnamese stock market. (Vietnam Economic Times)