Vietnam lured some 4.2 billion U.S. dollars in foreign indirect investment in the first nine months of 2017, up 64 percent on-year, the country's General Statistics Office said on Wednesday.
Of the money, 660 million U.S. dollars was poured into Vietnam's stock market.
In the nine-month period, Vietnam licensed 1,844 foreign direct investment projects with total registered capital of 14.6 billion U.S. dollars, while seeing 878 operational projects increase capital by nearly 6.8 billion U.S. dollars, according to the Foreign Investment Agency.