Vietnam Rated Third in World's Top Potential Stock Markets

3:00:11 PM | 1/22/2007

Motley Fool, the prestigious US magazine on finance, stock market and investment, has rated Vietnam as the world’s third most potential securities market, local media reported.
 
Under the new ranking Motley Fool released on January 16, Vietnam’s stock market ranks third in return rate in the world, following Peru and Venezuela, and just behind China and Russia.
 
Motley Fool quoted reports from the Birinyi Associates, an asset management and market research company, in which the top ten bull markets are as follow:
 
No.
Country
Return rate
1
Peru
168 per cent
2
Venezuela
156 per cent
3
Vietnam
145 per cent
4
China
121 per cent
5
Russia
92 per cent
6
Costa Rica
77 per cent
7
Botswana
74 per cent
8
Croatia
61 per cent
9
Serbia & Montenegro
58 per cent
10
Morocco
57 per cent
 
A month ago (December 13, 2006), Motley Fool also released a ranking on return rate of stock markets, based on Dow Jones’s figures, the result is quite different.
 
Accordingly, Vietnam and China were not even listed in this ranking. Following is the previous ranking:
 
No.
Country
Return rate
1
Cyprus
159 per cent
2
Slovenia
74 per cent
3
Indonesia
60 per cent
4
Venezuela
58 per cent
5
Poland
52 per cent
6
Spain
47 per cent
7
Turkey
40 per cent
8
Philippines
40 per cent
9
Norway
39 per cent
10
Sweden
37 per cent
 
Motley Fool confirmed that the new figures of Birinyi Associates are more updated and reliable. (People Literacy)