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Bridge – The fledgling merchandise
trading floors in Vietnam, which have been operating for two or three years,
have been very gloomy with sporadic investors who join the floors just to
listen to the news.
VNX,
belonging to the Vietnam Merchandise Exchange, the first trading floor licensed
by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, was very quiet during the office hours.
The electronic boards at the floor were off, while the chairs reserved for
visitors were empty.
VNX was
established in September 2010, while the first transactions were made in March
2011. However, to date, only the future contracts of three merchandise
categories – coffee, rubber and steel – have been listed.
A
report of VNX shows that in the first quarter of 2012, the total contracted
transaction volume was 12,000 lots only with the trading value of 530 billion
dong. The figures were 93,000 lots and 7300 billion dong in the whole year
2011. Most of the transactions were in the coffee sector, while there were few
rubber transactions and nearly no steel transactions.
By
March 2012, the trading floor’s members had opened 1981 accounts at the trading
floors. The investors are mostly individuals who join the floor mainly to
explore the market. Tran Duy Phuong, General Director of VNX, has also admitted
that the trading floor is experiencing difficult days with limited number of
investors. Therefore, most of the transactions have been made among individual
investors, while the trading floor has not attracted institutional investors.
The
Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Trading Floor BCEC was allowed by the government to carry
out coffee forward transactions in a trial basis for one year, commencing from
March 2011. A report of BCEC showed that from March 2011 to December 2011, the
total trading volume of the trading floor was 7000 lots only, valued at 600
billion dong.
The
government has just allowed BCEC to extend the trial operation period until the
end of 2012. However, the center is facing big difficulties, when domestic
enterprises do not intend to make transactions here, while coffee growers do
have confidence on the floor.
The Son
Tin Merchandise Trading Floor STE belonging to Sacombank on Nam Ky Khoi Nghia
Street in district 3, HCM City, has also been gloomy. STE’s Director Phan Vu
Hung said the trading floor has not been taking loss over the last three years
like others, but the profit is too low.
Also
according to Hung, 250,000 tons of steel was traded on STE in 2010, 180,000
tons in 2011. Especially, the trading floor was very gloomy in the first four
months of the year with only 80,000 tons traded. Meanwhile, the fertilizer
trading volume was inconsiderable.
Problems exist
Investors
now still turn their back to trading floors, which is considered the main
reason behind the poor business performance here. Besides, trading floors are
facing a lot of big challenges caused by legal regulations.
Pham
Dinh Thuong, Deputy Director of the Legal Department of the Ministry of
Industry and Trade, has admitted that too many problems have been existing
which has hindered the development.
For
example, the current regulations stipulate that the total trading volume of
goods on the floors must not exceed 50 percent of the total output of the
merchandise made in Vietnam in the previous year. The trading volume limit of
one member must not be higher than 10 percent of the above said total trading
volume limit.
Phuong
said that VNX has requested the government to offer tax incentives to the
enterprises to join the derivatives merchandise trading floors.
“I
think we should attract foreign investors, because this would help improve the
liquidity and the diversification of the trading activities via the floor,”
Phuong said.
Source:
Lao dong
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