Vietnamese shares advanced on March 4 with the strong growth of large-cap stocks such as Vingroup (VIC), Vinhome (VHM), PV Gas (GAS), Vinamilk (VNM), and Vincome Retail (VRE).
Shares tumbled for a third straight day on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange on December 7 but rose on Hanoi’s bourse as money inflow channelled into small- and mid-cap stocks.
The stock market experienced an emotional trading period on December 10
with rapid reversals of prices, shooting up from red to green in just
over an hour.
Trading was sluggish as investors were cautious before the market closed
for a five-day public holiday with the benchmark indices seen closing
down on both bourse.
The unexpected rise in petrol prices on June 14 hit the stock market on
the first trading day of the week on June 17 with indices falling on
both major exchanges.
Shares fell steeply on March 2, with over 81 percent of codes on both
national stock exchanges losing value, although market volume improved
as bottom-catching buys increased.
Gains on world markets last week helped buoy domestic investor confidence,
lifting the VN-Index to a close on March 8 of 521.12, a gain of over 1.5
percent.