Shares climb, bouyed by blue-chip stocks

Aug 27th at 13:57
27-08-2020 13:57:32+07:00

Shares climb, bouyed by blue-chip stocks

Shares rose slightly on Thursday morning thanks to the support of heavyweigh stocks.

 

The benchmark VN-Index on the Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange gained slightly 0.02 per cent to close Thursday morning at 873.67 points.

The index had lost 0.07 per cent to close Wednesday at 873.47 points.

Nearly 185.3 million shares traded on the southern exchange, worth VND3.5 trillion (US$150.9 million).

Market breadth was positive with 193 gainers and 172 decliners.

The VN30-Index, which tracks the performance of the 30 largest stocks by market capitalisation and liquidity on HoSE, rose 0.06 per cent to close Thursday morning at 812.82 points.

In the VN30 basket, 15 of the 30 largest stocks by market capitalisation and trading liquidity increased. Nine lost ground and six were unchanged.

Strong cash flow poured into large-caps such as Vietinbank (CTG), Hoa Phat Group (HPG), FPT Corporation (FPT), Mobile World Group (MWG), Techcombank (TCB). Vinamilk (VNM), VPBank (VPB) and Vincom Retail (VRE).

The HNX-Index on the Ha Noi Stock Exchange climbed 0.27 per cent to close Thursday morning at 124.23 points.

It had climbed 0.42 per cent to close Wednesday at 123.89 points.

Nearly 31.7 million shares were traded on the northern bourse, worth VND548.5 billion. 

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