HANOI, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Vietnam's benchmark VN Index edged up 0.32 percent by midday on Friday, lifted by gains in some blue chips and real estate stocks as the central bank cut a lending rate in the house purchase credit package, an analyst said. The State Bank of Vietnam cut the rate for dong loans used to buy house to 5 percent this year, from 6 percent in 2013, to boost disbursement of the stimulus package worth 30 trillion dong ($1.42 billion), it said in a statement on Thursday.
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