Shares advanced on both local exchanges yesterday after a long weekend holiday, driven by large-cap stocks (Photo: vietnamfinance.vn) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Sharesadvanced on both local exchanges on September 5 after a long weekend holiday,driven by large-cap stocks. However, trading conditions suggest rough sessionsahead for the markets.
The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi MinhStock Exchange rose 0.45 percent to close at 792.31 points. It had increased2.2 percent last week and 1.9 percent in the previous three sessions.
The HNX-Index on the Hanoi Stock Exchangegained 0.56 percent to end at 104.38 points, rebounding from September 1’s lossof 0.1 percent. The northern market index finished up a total 1.1 percent lastweek.
More than 202 million shares were traded onboth bourses, worth 3.85 trillion VND (171.4 million USD).
September 5’s trading figures constituted an11.2 percent volume rise and 8.4 percent hike in value compared to September 1.
September 5’s gains on both local exchangeswere attributed to good performances of large-cap stocks with the VN30 Index,which tracks the 30 largest companies by market capitalisation, gaining 0.38 percent.
Fourteen of the 30 largest stocks by marketcapitalisation in the VN30 basket advanced between 0.2 percent and 3.5 percent,with the biggest gainers being food producer Kido Group (KDC), PetroVietnamPower Nhon Trach 2 (NT2), lenders Sacombank (STB) and Vietcombank (VCB),PetroVietnam Gas (GAS) and property developer Vingroup (VIC).
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Among 20 industries in the stock market,property, banking and energy industry indices were also the three that postedgood gains, which were 0.9 percent, 0.6 percent and 0.5 percent, respectively.
Beside VIC, other stocks that also made goodgains in the real estate sector included Sacomreal (SCR), Quoc Cuong Gia LaiJSC (QCG), Thang Long Investment Group (TIG) and Nha Bay Bay Investment Corp(NBB).
The Hanoi-based brokerage Bao Viet Securities(BVSC) wrote in its September 5 report that it saw very few positive signalswith the good performance and flow of money limited to large-cap stocks.
Despite the market trading liquidityimprovement from September 1, it remained much lower than the average of theprevious 21 sessions, reflecting weakening market demand and cautiousinvestment sentiment, it said.
That created an imbalance as total decliningstocks on both bourses outnumbered gaining ones, proving that investors wereseeking profit in speculative small- and medium-cap stocks, BVSC added.-VNA
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