Heavy buys in the final minutes of July 23’s session on the HCM City Stock Exchange lifted the VN-Index by 14.72 points to a close of 434.2, a gain of 3.51 percent.

The value of the day’s trades remained low at 877.7 billion VND (49.3 million USD), although the figures still represented an increase of 27.7 percent from July 22’s session. Volume was 24.17 million shares, with foreign investor accounting for 5.2 million of the overall total.

On the Hanoi Stock Exchange, the HNX-Index on July 23 also rallied by 5.53 percent to close at 147.55, with 182 of 194 listed shares posting big gains.

Volume on the northern bourse doubled that of July 22’s session to 20.1 million shares, worth a total of 615.9 billion VND (34.6 million USD). Foreign investors accounted for 833,300 shares worth of this volume.

Sacombank (STB) remained the most active share on the HCM City Stock Exchange, with 4 million traded, while Asia Commercial Bank (ACB) was most favoured in Hanoi , with a volume of 3.4 million shares./.