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Banking operations in the first months of 2019 achieved many remarkable results. Credit has gradually been controlled more strictly, as of March 25, 2019, credit increased by 2.28% compared to the end of 2018, rising 1.9% over the same period of 2018. The situation of deposit interest rates as well as lending interest rates was relatively stable. Thanks to Resolution 42, the debt collection rate has increased greatly and the bad debt ratio in the economy has been reduced.

According to the updated report in April 2019, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasted that the World economic growth rate would drop to the lowest level since the economic crisis in the period of 2008 – 2009. Accordingly, the world economy was forecasted to grow by 3,3% in 2019 and 3,6% in 2020, the 2019 growth rate would decrease 0,2 percentage point compared to the January 2019 forecast. In Q1/2019, USD price tended to happen closely to the forecast in the end of last year and quite similar to the same moment of 2018. USD fluctuated continuously in Q1/2019 but it showed the cooling down trend compared to QIV/2018 and became more stable.

Of all the international transport operations, sea transport is always the main mode, accounting for over 90% of the world trade volume. In 2019, the demand for transporting goods by container was estimated to increase sharply and achieving 4,7% due to the world economy’s recovery, good growth rate of commercialization. This figure was lower than 2018 because of the impact of US-China trade stress. Besides, The prospect of economic growth in 2019 is expected to be not as strong as previous years.