Stock market hits new records this week

Illustrative photo. (Source: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s stock market saw another record this week, with the benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) closing at a new peak of 1,488.87 points, up 25.24 points, on November 24.

The HNX-Index on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) picked up 6.98 points to hit 455.58 points, while the UPCoM-Index for unlisted public companies edged up 1.61 points to reach 114.64 points at the end of the session.

Over 38.7 trillion VND (1.7 billion USD) worth of shares were traded on the day, up 32 percent from the previous day.

The value of shares traded on both the northern and southern bourses has remained over 22 trillion VND (1 billion USD) per session since the beginning of this year, compared to 7.42 trillion VND in average each session in 2020.

The market’s liquidity also set a record high at the end of last week, exceeding 56.3 billion VND, or nearly 2.5 billion USD./.

VNA