Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on July 4 chaired an online meeting with localities and a regular Cabinet meeting to review the socio-economic situation in the first half of this year and seek solutions to implement tasks for the rest of the year.

Vietnam’s credit growth as of June 9 expanded by 17.09% against the same period last year, Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Dao Minh Tu said on June 15.

VOV.VN - Vietnam's ongoing economic recovery after being negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic for two years can be put down to the Government's efforts to create optimal conditions for local businesses to resume normal operations in line with safe pandemic control conditions.

VOV.VN - The Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) has moved to lower Vietnam’s GDP growth rate for the year from the previously-projected 6.5% to 6.2% amid fears of rising oil prices globally.

Analysts of many foreign investment funds and local securities companies expect bank stocks will continue to record positive results in 2022.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 6 urged the financial sector to harmoniously combine fiscal and monetary policies, and better the State budget management work in 2022.

VOV.VN - The inflation rate for 2022 will be within reach of around 2% to 3%, lower than the 4% target set by the National Assembly (NA), according to forecast made by various experts and managers.

VOV.VN - Inflation has been kept at a low rate in Vietnam since the beginning of the year, although pressure is starting to build up moving into the remaining months of the year and early 2022, according to economists.

The World Bank has suggested the Vietnamese Government early devise back-up plans in case the COVID-19 pandemic could last one or two more years, and conduct vaccination in parallel with testing to control the pandemic and mitigate its economic loss.

Vietnam looks to maintain Consumer Price Index (CPI) growth lower than 1% a month during the last quarter of 2021 in an effort to keep inflation under the 4% target for the year.