{"id":219247,"date":"2025-10-12T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219247\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:36:15","slug":"vietnam-excites-investors-with-dramatic-economic-reform-program-new-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219247\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Excites Investors With Dramatic Economic Reform Program: New Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Just months after Donald Trump singled out Vietnam for one of the most punitive tariff rates on a major US trading partner, the Southeast Asian nation\u2019s stock market has soared, its GDP growth is beating almost all estimates and it\u2019s even managed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-16\/vietnam-urges-us-to-rethink-seafood-ban-as-trade-talks-grind-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">deal of sorts<\/a> with the mercurial American president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The VN stock index hit a fresh record this week after Vietnam won an upgrade to \u201cemerging market\u201d status from FTSE Russell, one of the world\u2019s biggest benchmark providers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-07\/ftse-to-upgrade-vietnam-to-emerging-market-status-from-frontier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">moving up a notch<\/a> from \u201cfrontier,\u201d which is viewed as riskier and more volatile. That was after years of capital-market reforms, which are continuing under the country\u2019s current leader, Communist Party General Secretary To Lam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just months after Donald Trump singled out Vietnam for one of the most punitive tariff rates on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3995,28,144,102,110,101,1556,11516,11451,102297,123730,3997,13509,3999],"class_list":["post-219247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-global-trade","tag-hanoi","tag-new-economy","tag-pak-lam-to","tag-singapore","tag-stock-index","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}