An investor looks at stock prices on the screens at a brokerage in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran
Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index fell 0.17% to 1,323.81 points Thursday while trading fell to a one-month low.
The index closed 2.28 points lower after dropping 5.83 points in the previous session.
Trading on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange decreased by 14% to VND16.083 trillion (US$628.8 million), its lowest in over a month.
The VN-30 basket, comprising the 30 largest capped stocks, saw 21 tickers dropped.
VRE of retail real estate arm Vincom Retail went down 1.5%, TPB of private TPBank fell by 1.4%, and LPB of Fortune Vietnam Bank slipped 1.3%.
Eight blue chips gained. SHB of Saigon Hanoi Commercial Bank rose 3.7%, FPT of tech giant FPT Corporation posted a 2.6% gain, and BVH of insurance company Bao Viet Holdings closed 1.9% higher.
Foreign investors were net seller to the tune of VND64 billion, mainly selling FPT and TPB.
The HNX-Index for stocks on the Hanoi Stock Exchange, home to mid and small caps, fell 0.74%, while the UPCoM-Index for the Unlisted Public Companies Market went up 0.11%.
