Yangon Stock Exchange opens up to the world

THE Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX) is expected to give foreign investors a New Year's gift. It will soon be releasing new rules to allow them to trade. The market authorities are making all the right moves soon after Myanmar enacted a new companies' law in August this year, lifting restrictions on foreign participation in its fledgling stock market and in the wider economy.

The new stock trading rules may be announced just before the year ends, according to the managing director of the YSX, U Yin Zaw Myo.

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