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Vietnam remains in the watch list for a possible reclassification from frontier to secondary emerging market status, according to FTSE Russel’s Country Classification review in March.

The stock market extended rallies on Thursday, lifted by the banking and real estate industries, while liquidity soared over US$1 billion.

Benchmark indices managed to close slightly higher in the last trading minutes on Wednesday, while foreign investors net sold a huge amount of more VNĐ2 trillion on the two main bourses.