Vietnam outperforms amid regional slump. The VNI finished the third quarter down 5.1% after closing out September with a slight slippage of 0.37% where low volume range-trading prevailed in most days. Vietnam’s stock market performance looked relatively solid in the wake of global turbulence that has hit other frontier and emerging markets in the region – the MSCI Emerging+Frontier Index is off about 12% for the third quarter.