Business News

The monthly statistical data presents current economic and social statistics on a variety of subjects illustrating crucial economic trends and developments, including production of agriculture, forestry and fishery, business registration situation, investment, government revenues and expenditures, trade, prices, transport and tourism and so on.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s online portal, after surging at the beginning of the month, global rubber prices fell sharply by month-end amid peak harvesting in Southeast Asia. In China, natural rubber prices dropped 5.6% to 14,490 yuan per ton. Over the first nine months, Vietnam exported 1.3 million tons of rubber worth US$2.32 billion, up 10.8% in value compared to the same period last year. 

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In the first six months of 2025, the region’s GDP saw a robust growth rate of 11.2 per cent, with the industrial sector surging over 12.8 per cent and services by 9.9 per cent. Cumulative FDI in post-merger Haiphong has now exceeded $50 billion, coming from 1,724 active projects, primarily in key sectors such as processing, manufacturing, and logistics.

According to Vietnam Customs, Vietnam’s tilapia exports (including red tilapia) reached over USD 63 million in the first 8 months of 2025, up 174% from the same period last year. This figure exceeded Vietnam’s tilapia export value over the past five years, since 2020. The US remained the largest importer, accounting for 62% of Vietnam’s tilapia exports.

Việt Nam's hotel market will attract over US$125 million in cumulative investments in 2025 as the country’s tourism market eclipses pre-Covid levels, according to data and analysis by JLL Vietnam, a professional services firm specialising in real estate and investment management. The company said that the market is poised to enter a prolonged period of investment growth driven by an influx of tourists and the completion of new infrastructure.

The Vietnamese real estate market is experiencing an unprecedented surge in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with both domestic and foreign companies actively driving growth in this vibrant sector. According to a recent report by Grant Thornton Vietnam, the total value of M&A transactions in the country reached approximately US$4.8 billion in the first eight months of 2025, representing a 21 per cent increase from the same period last year.

Total registered investment, including new and adjusted capital across the three areas of HCM City, Bình Dương and Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu (former administrative units), reached US$4.4 billion. This represented 96.4 per cent of the same period last year and 117.96 per cent of the 2025 annual target. As many as 197.43 hectares of land and more than 63,000 square metres of factory space were leased.