A 40% increase in infrastructure investment that the Vietnamese Government is now planning would add approximately 2 percentage points to Vietnam’s 2025 GDP growth - if the Government manages to hit its disbursement targets this year, according to Michael Kokalari, chief economist at VinaCapital.

While Vietnam's exports to the US have bolstered GDP growth this year, domestic factors, including the Government’s increasing spending on infrastructure, real estate market recovery, and consumption, will help the country maintain its economic expansion at around 6.5% in 2025.

Vietnam should fare reasonably well under the next Trump administration, according to investment management firm VinaCapital.

Leading investment fund VinaCapital remains confident in the Vietnamese stock market in the last months of this year despite foreign investors’ heavy net selling.

Vietnamese small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) should better their management capacity and business strategies so as to draw capital from both domestic and foreign investment funds who are holding hundreds of billions of US dollars, economists have said.

VOV.VN - Rising confidence among consumers in the United States is anticipated to help new Vietnamese export orders as they continue to increase over the months ahead, according to investment management firm VinaCapital

VOV.VN - Representatives of global leading corporations highly valued Vietnam’s conducive business and investment environment during an exchange with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Davos, Switzerland, on January 17 morning (local time), saying Vietnam is an attractive investment destination in the world.

Listed companies’ earnings growth is expected to recover from zero last year to 10-15% this year, but with a wide variation between sectors, according to Michael Kokalari, a chartered financial analyst and chief economist at VinaCapital.

VOV.VN - Many prestigious international organizations such as VinaCapital and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have forecast that Vietnamese GDP will continue seeing strong growth in 2024, rising to be among the 20 highest growing economies globally.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s GDP growth is projected to slow down from 8% in 2022 to 4.7% in 2023 before rising to 6.5% in 2024, according to Michael Kokalari, CFA. Chief Economist at VinaCapital.