The government announced February 26 that it would not, for now,
allow retail fuel prices to increase as part of an effort to control
inflation. SEE MORE (VOV) - HSBC believes the biggest risk facing Vietnam is the return of
inflation should the government aggressively ease monetary policy to
support ailing sectors. SEE MORE Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has allowed the State Bank of Vietnam
(SBV) to trade gold bars in an effort to stabilise the local gold market
and stock gold bullion for the State foreign exchange reserve. SEE MORE the dollar fell for a second day
against most of its major counterparts before a private jobs
report in the U.S. forecast to show companies added positions. SEE MORE The Standard & Poor’s GSCI gauge of
24 commodities fell 0.1 percent to 642.17 at 5:05 p.m. Singapore
time. The UBS Bloomberg CMCI index of 26 raw materials dropped
0.1 percent to 1,534.107. SEE MORE