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Liquidity high as shares tumble

Accelerated selling in the afternoon dragged down the benchmark indices on the Ho Chi Minh City Exchange, even as liquidity climbed to a new high on December 20.
Accelerated selling in the afternoon dragged down the benchmark indiceson the Ho Chi Minh City Exchange, even as liquidity climbed to a newhigh on December 20.

Meanwhile, the VN-Index on the southern bourse tumbled 0.36 percent to 504.45 points.

The total trading value was more than double that of December 19,reaching 3.039 trillion VND (144.7 million USD) on the exchange of142.42 million shares.

Red colouring spread throughout the electric board, with 120 stocks losing, in comparison to 96 gainers.
Also, the VN30-Index, tracking the southern city's 30 largest sharesby capitalisation and liquidity, shed 0.86 percent to 560.68 points.

Of those, only Masan Group (MSN) managed to increase 2,000 VND (0.095USD) per share to 87,000 VND (4.1 USD) thanks to the buying by foreigninvestors.

Nineteen stocks declined yesterday, including bignames such as insurance company Bao Viet Group (BVH), Hoang Anh Gia Lai(HAG), Hoa Phat Group (HPG), Hoa Sen Group (HSG), Kinh Do (KDC),PetroVietnam Drilling (PVD), PetroVietnam Transportation (PVT) andVietcombank (VCB).

Notably, real estate giant Vingroup (VIC) lost 4,000 VND (0.19 USD) per share to 66,000 VND (3.14 USD).

Selling jumped during the final minutes of the afternoon's session, astransactions boomed, pushing liquidity to a new high.

Thenorthern bourse also witnessed a record high in liquidity on December20, with 91 million shares traded with a total value of 615.14 billionVND (29.29 million USD), 28 percent and 7 percent higher than theprevious day, respectively.

The HNX-Index lost 0.18 percent to67.5 points and the HNXFF-Index, composed of stocks with a minimum freefloat rate of 5 percent, decreased 0.31 percent to 67.5 points.

The HNX30-Index, composed of the bourse's largest shares, shed 0.78 percent to 128.03 percent.

December 20 was the last day for the two exchange-traded funds (ETF)to restructure their investment lists. The new lists will become activeon December24.-VNA
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