Vietnam, the region’s small frontier market, has seen a four-fold jump in share trading volumes in December as the benchmark VN-Index surpassed the 1,000-point mark, a threshold it struggled to cross over the last two years, said the Reuters.

Stock Market Today: US stocks tumbled as Warren Buffett sells all his stakes in US airlines. Will the U.S. stock market retest bear-market lows put in on March 23? That is perhaps the most prevalent question on Wall Street.

The stock market just completed a 50% retracement of its coronavirus plummet. Perched atop a 3-week peak to which it was driven by reduced negativity is hardly cause for a bull market rallying cry. Instead, the stock market needs to prove its mettle either by pausing to build a foundation or by testing (i.e., not breaking below) its recent lows, Forbes reported. 

Global stocks posted small gains on Thursday on hopes that the coronavirus outbreak may be slowing in the United States and Europe. Oil futures, meanwhile, are rising ahead of a meeting between Russia and OPEC to discuss production cuts.

On Wednesday, the global stock markets fell moderately and Wall Street's stock market rally fizzled in the final hour of trading Tuesday following another plunge in oil prices.