U.S. crude settled down $1.79 or 2.8 percent at $61.81 a barrel, heading for its biggest weekly fall since February.

In “Managing headwinds” report released recently, the World Bank forecasts Vietnam’s economic growth rate would reach 6.6 percent in 2019, driven by credit tightening, slower private consumption and weaker external demand.

The growth of the global economy is expected to slow to 2.9 percent in 2019 compared with 3 percent in 2018, the World Bank said in a statement with “Darkening prospects: Global economy to slow to 2.9 percent in 2019 as trade, investment...

China’s factory activity contracted for a third straight month in February but at a slower pace, helped by improvements in domestic manufacturing, a private survey showed on Friday.

Deputy Director General for the National Centre for Socio-Economic Information and Forecast (NCIF) and Executive Director of Mekong Institute (MI) had a meeting in Hanoi on February 27 to look for ways to promote cooperation between the two...