Investors look at stock prices on a laptop at a brokerage in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran
Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose 0.39% to 1,269.61 points Wednesday.
The index closed 4.93 points higher after gaining 11.65 points in the previous session.
Trading on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange slid by 13% to VND13.343 trillion (US$530.9 million).
The VN-30 basket, comprising the 30 largest capped stocks, saw 15 tickers gained.
VRE of retail real estate arm Vincom Retail rose 3.4% and LPB of Lien Viet Post Bank closed 2.3% higher, followed by VNM of dairy giant Vinamilk with a 2.2% rise.
Fourteen blue chips fell, including MSN of conglomerate Masan Group with a 1.6% drop.
SSI of brokerage SSI Securities Corporation slipped 1.0% and SHB of Saigon Hanoi Commercial Bank went down 0.9%.
Foreign investors were net seller to the tune of VND366 billion, mainly selling FPT of IT giant FPT Corporation and MSN.
The HNX-Index for stocks on the Hanoi Stock Exchange, home to mid and small caps, rose 0.61%, while the UPCoM-Index for the Unlisted Public Companies Market went up 0.62%.
