An investor looks at stock prices on a smartphone at a brokerage in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran
Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose 0.82% to 1,288.56 points Wednesday, its best session in two weeks.
The index closed 10.42 points higher after gaining 5.42 points in the previous session.
Trading on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange increased by 23% to VND17.496 trillion (US$685.7 million).
The VN-30 basket, comprising the 30 largest capped stocks, saw 26 tickers rose.
GVR of Vietnam Rubber Group and BCM of Becamex Investment and Industrial Development both went up by 2.6%, followed by MWG of electronics retail chain Mobile World with a 2.4% gain.
Three blue chips fell, namely BVH of insurance company Bao Viet Holdings with a 1.4% drop, SSB of SeABank with a 0.8% decline, and HPG of steelmaker Hoa Phat Group, which closed 0.2% lower.
Foreign investors were net buyers to the tune of VND354 billion, mainly buying FPT of IT giant FPT Corporation and OCB of Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank.
The HNX-Index for stocks on the Hanoi Stock Exchange, home to mid and small caps, rose 0.83%, while the UPCoM-Index for the Unlisted Public Companies Market went down 0.19%.
