HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s consumer price index rose 3.63% in January from a year earlier while industrial production rose a modest 0.6% due to the Lunar New Year holidays late in the month, the government said on Wednesday.
The figures were published on the government’s portal one day before the statistics office was due to release January data for a range of macroeconomic indicators.
Retails sales rose 9.5% in January from a year earlier, the government said in a statement.
It said the trade surplus for January came in at $1.23 billion.
The government said foreign investment inflows rose 2% in January from a year earlier to more than $1.5 billion, and foreign investment pledges rose an annual 48.6% to $4.3 billion.
“The banking system operated safely and stably”, it said.
(Reporting by Khanh Vu, Phuong Nguyen and Francesco Guarascio; Editing by John Mair)
