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The VN-Index of the Hochiminh Stock Exchange closed at 984.46 points, down 0.14% against the day earlier, with 140 stocks rising and 159 others losing. Trade on the southern exchange totaled 216.9 million shares worth VND4.4 trillion, falling 8% and 11.6% respectively versus Tuesday. In block deals, 88 million shares worth VND1.74 trillion were transacted.
Property group VIC lost 1.2% at VND114,900 per share at the end of the day while housing developer VHM declined 0.22% at VND92,000 and retailer VRE slid 1.39% at VND35,500. VRE was the most liquid stock among the heavyweights, with 2.6 million shares changing hands.
Other heavyweights such as lender VCB, dairy producer VNM, consumer goods firm MSN, lender CTG and construction firm ROS lost by less than 1% each.
As for oil and gas shares, leading gas firm GAS advanced 0.5% at VND101,500 and PLX improved 0.83% at VND60,800 while PVD was the top gainer on the southern market, jumping 3.23% at VND19,200 with 6.35 million shares traded.
Lender BID closed up 2.59% at VND35,700 while its fellow EIB rose 3.57% at VND17,400. The stocks saw their matching volume totaling 1.9 million and 0.48 million shares. In addition, tech firm FPT added 2.61% at VND47,200 with over one million shares transacted.
Notably, small-cap shares drew investor attention on the southern bourse today. Speculative stocks such as property developer FLC, construction firm ITA, real estate firm DLG fell but their liquidity ran high on active trade.
Oil and gas company TDG maintained the ceiling price of VND3,230 per share with 1.6 million shares traded. Despite its morning loss, petroleum firm PXS closed at its upper limit of VND5,130 and its trading volume totaled 770,000 shares.
Additionally, mining firm KSH closed at its ceiling price of VND1,290 with 1.46 million shares changing hands.
The HNX-Index of the Hanoi Stock Exchange fell 0.17% at 107.3 points. The northern bourse saw 39 million shares worth VND612 billion transacted at the end of the day, up 33% and 49.5% against yesterday’s session.
As for gas and oil shares, PVS improved 3.77% at VND22,000, with matching volume reaching 8.2 million shares, leading the northern bourse by liquidity. PVB spiked 6.06% at VND21,000 with 970,000 shares traded while PVC added 4.11% at VND7,600, with volume amounting to 0.79 million shares.
Although real estate stock VCG continued its downward spiral at VND25,400 at the end of the day, dipping 5.22%, it was the second most actively traded stock with volume of 2.95 million shares.
Regarding bank stocks, NVB rose slightly at VND8,700 with matching volume amounting to 1.1 million shares while its fellow ACB closed down 0.66% at VND33,100 with 1.39 million shares traded.