Shares struggle on simultaneous fall of pillars
Shares struggle on simultaneous fall of pillars
Vietnamese shares struggled on Monday as large-caps stocks simultaneously dropped putting negative pressure on the market.
The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange lost 0.19 per cent to end the trading session at 1,191.94 points.
More than 747.4 million shares were traded on the southern bourse, worth VND17 trillion (US$733.5 million).
Market breadth was neutral with 273 gainers and 201 decliners.
The large-cap tracker VN30-Index was down 0.75 per cent to 1,173.34 points.
Nineteen of the 30 large-cap stocks in the VN30 basket decreased while eleven climbed.
Leading the downtrend were the banking codes of Eximbank (EIB), Sacombank (STB), HDBank (HDB), Vietinbank (CTG), VPBank (VPB) and Military Bank (MBB) with the same drop of more than 2 per cent.
Techcombank (TCB), SSI Securities Inc (SSI), Novaland (NVL), Mobile World Group (MWG), PetroVietnam Gas JSC (GAS) and Khang Dien House (KDH) suffered losses of more than 1 per cent.
On the other side, FLC Faros Construction Joint Stock Company (ROS) was the strongest gainer with 7 per cent increase, Thanh Thanh Cong - Bien Hoa JSC (SBT) also rebounded more than 5 per cent, PVPower (POW) and Masan Group (MSN) both advanced 2 per cent, Vincom Retail (VRE) and Phu Nhuan Jelwery (PNJ) were up 1 per cent.
“At the beginning of the session, the VN-Index rose quickly above 1,200 points, but profit-taking pressure gradually reduced its uptrend. The Index still ended the session above 1,190 points," said BIDV Securities Co.
“Foreign investors continued to be net sellers on both exchanges, the HoSE and HNX. Besides, market breadth turned sideways and the liquidity was not much different from the previous session. According to our assessment, the VN-Index may experience declines after a long period of large increases this week,” it said.
Foreign investors net sold VND557.92 billion on HOSE, including Hoa Phat Group (HPG) with VND371.1 billion, SSI Securities Co (SSI) with VND78.5 billion and Vinhomes (VHM) with VND60.8 billion. They were net sellers on the HNX with a value of VND43.74 billion.
Ten out of 25 sector indices on the stock market lost ground, including insurance, retail, energy, securities, IT, banking, agriculture and logistics.
On the opposite side, gainers were food and beverage, rubber production, seafood processing, wholesale, real estate, healthcare, construction materials and construction.
On the Ha Noi Stock Exchange, the HNX-Index rose 2.24 per cent to close Monday at 230.50 points.
More than 158 million shares were traded on the northern market, worth VND2.4 trillion.
