Blue chips lift shares on both exchanges
Blue chips lift shares on both exchanges
Shares rebounded this morning on both exchanges, led by the recovery of blue chips.
The VN-Index on the HCM City Stock Exchange regained 0.5 per cent to stand at 487.51 points, with advancers doubling decliners.
Many large-cap shares rose this morning, pushing the VN30 (tracking the top 30 shares by market capitalisation and liquidity) up 0.58 per cent to 552.91 points.
Trading was fairly good with over 37 million shares, worth nearly VND540 billion (US$25.7 million), changing hands.
Eximbank (EIB) was the most outstanding code this morning with 4.4 million shares worth over VND69 billion ($3.3 million) exchanged via negotiation and over 1.5 million shares traded via put-through trading on the exchange. More than 18.7 million EIB shares, worth VND295 billion ($14.1 million), were also traded through negotiation yesterday.
EIB rose 2.04 per cent to close at VND15,000 a share.
However, Tan Tao Investment Industry (ITA) was the most active code this morning with 3.55 million shares traded on the exchange, jumping 6.1 per cent to VND7,000 a share.
On the Ha Noi Stock Exchange, the HNX-Index also climbed 0.75 per cent to 60.53 points on turnover of VND151.5 billion ($7.2 million).
Sai Gon-Ha Noi Bank (SHB) and PetroVietnam Construction (PVX) are temporarily leading the market with over 4.2 million shares traded on each code. While SHB increased just 1.5 per cent to VND6,900 a share, PVX jumped 5.8 per cent to close at VND5,500 each.
Trading will resume at 1pm.
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