Shares rebound on bottom fishing

Shares on both national stock exchanges rebounded on Dec. 28 as many investors began to hunt bargains.
Shares on both national stock exchanges rebounded on Dec. 28 as many investors began to hunt bargains.

Most analysts agreed a rally was predictable after several consecutivesessions of decline but what investors cared about now was how long theuptrend could last.

"The supporting factor now is probablyonly the technical signals which indicate that the two indices fell toohard after several declines," analysts with Vietcombank Securities Cowrote in a market report.

"However, without the supportfrom the improvements in the economic situation, any uptrends areunlikely to be sustained," they said.

The HCM StockExchange saw more than 60 per cent of codes posting gains, with thebenchmark VN-Index rising 0.82 per cent to finish the session at 350.66points.

Most of the blue chips gained in value, withVietinbank (CTG), Vietcombank (VCB), Saigon Securities Inc (SSI) andproperty developer Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAG) hitting their daily limit of 5per cent.

HAG chairman Doan Nguyen Duc registered to buy 5million HAG shares from December 30 to February 29 – a move consideredto take advantage of HAG's cheap share price to increase his holdings inthe company.

Of the 10 leading shares by capitalisation,only Sacombank (STB) bottomed out and insurer Bao Viet Holdings (BVH)declined 2.1 percent.

Financial Ocean Group (OGC) rose tobe the most active code yesterday with 1.84 million shares changinghands, gaining 4.1 percent to close at 7,600 USD.

Overall the market volume increased slightly to over 57.7 million shares, worth more than 838 billion VND (40 million USD).

On the Hanoi Stock Exchange, the Bank for Investment and Development ofVietnam (BIDV) auctioned nearly 85 million shares in its initial publicoffering (IPO) with the starting price of 18,500 VND (0.88 USD) pershare.

Up to 16,238 investors had registered to buy over140.8 million shares, surpassing the registered number by 66.2 percent.The IPO results will be announced in the afternoon today.

The HNX-Index also surged 2.56 percent to close at 58.15 points, with gainers outnumbering losers by 171-65.

The value of trades decreased 20 percent, however, totalling 249billion USD (11.9 million USD) on a volume of 30.5 million shares.

VNDirect Securities Co (VND) continued to be the most heavily tradedstock in Hanoi with 2.71 million shares traded, closing unchanged at6,900 USD.

Foreign investors remained as net sellers inHCM City, unloading 48.2 billion USD (2.3 million USD) worth of shares,but they continued to pick up shares in Hanoi, responsible for a net buyof over 2 billion VND (100,000 USD) worth of shares. /.

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