Vietnam’s southern stock market finishes lower

Nearly 125.899 million shares worth 3.146 trillion Vietnamese dong (136.8 million U.S. dollars) changed hands at the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, with prices of 111 stocks rising, 162 stocks decreasing, and 109 stocks remaining unchanged.

Specifically, foreign investors bought 15.170 million shares totaling 663.25 billion Vietnamese dong (28.8 million U.S. dollars), and sold 13.268 million shares totaling 715.27 billion Vietnamese dong (31.1 million U.S. dollars).

On Thursday, VN30-Index, the new benchmark index for the southern bourse, which tracks the 30 leading stocks by both market capitalization and liquidity, closed at 861.31 points, down 2.38 points or 0.28 percent.