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PSNews - According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency, there had been 1,643 Vietnamese-invested valid projects in foreign countries with a total capital of 21.93 billion USD as of late April.

PSNews - Vietnamese investment overseas reached 572.3 million USD in the first nine months of 2021, up 32.4 percent over the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

PSNews – Vietnam’s trade balance posted positive, 1.29 billion USD, in the first two months of the year, the General Department of Customs said on December 28.

Hanoi raked in about 6.23 billion USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) during the first nine months of this year, continuing to lead the country in FDI attraction, according to the municipal People’s Committee.

Commercial banks have consecutively lowered the value of the US dollar against the Vietnamese dong during the final days of 2018, helping the USD/VND exchange rate close the year under control.

The dollar held gains against the yen on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump's tax plan offered no fresh surprises, slowing the greenback's rally, while the market awaited the European Central Bank's upcoming monetary policy decision.

The euro vaulted to five-month peaks in choppy Asian trading on Monday after the market's favored candidate won through the first round of the French election, reducing the risk of a Brexit-like shock and sparking a mass unwinding of safe-haven trades.

The dollar caught its breath in Asian trading on Thursday, holding above lows hit earlier this week as investors anxiously awaited this weekend's first round of presidential voting in France.

The prices of RON 92 petrol and bio-fuel E5 remained unchanged while diesel price 0.05S and kerosene increased slightly in the latest regular adjustment of petrol prices on January 19.