VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign investors concluded last week's trading as net sellers on the HCM City Stock Exchange, impacting on the VN-Index and making the domestic investors more cautious.

The current economic difficulties have brought the golden opportunities to the big tycoons to crush their quarries.

Vietnam believes that it’s now the right time to shift from the pre-licensing to post-licensing inspection over foreign invested projects to improve the foreign direct investment (FDI) quality.

What will happen if Vietnam allows foreign investors to hold 50 percent or more of listed companies’ shares?

Foreign investors target the leading companies in key business fields, striving to increase their ownership ratios there to penetrate more deeply into the large market with 80 million consumers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Shares in Ha Noi fell last week but HCM City stocks saw gains thanks to the upcoming establishment of the Viet Nam Asset Management Corporation (AMC).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam still remains a magnet for foreign investors despite shrinking inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) it faced during hard economic time.

Not only popular ice cream brands which target popular customers, high end brands have also eyed the Vietnamese market.

The lack of investment capital and gloomy domestic market have brought golden opportunities to foreign investors to buy real estate projects for knock-down prices.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Circular No 213/2012/TT-BTC has been issued by the Ministry of Finance to regulate the participation of foreign investors in the securities market.

All localities have geared up for the race to lure more foreign investors, especially when economists have predicted a new foreign direct investment wave heading for Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign businesses have withdrawn investment capital and stopped pouring money into the real estate market without any statements about the plans to come back to the market.

The owners of well known brands have been flocking to the central area of HCM City, thus making the war for retail premises in the area scorching hot.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Shares saw modest gains on the HCM City Stock Exchange last week, with the VN-Index ending Friday's session at 383.80 points, an increase of 1.58 per cent over the previous week's close.

It is quite a normal thing that a brand turns up and then disappears from the market. However, economists say the disappearance of a series of once well-known Vietnamese brands is really worrying.