Trading value on HNX up 16.5 percent in October

Trading value on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) totalled 857 billion VND (36.8 million USD) per trading session in October, up 16.5 percent against last month.
Trading value on HNX up 16.5 percent in October ảnh 1Illustrative image (Photo: tapchitaichinh.vn)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Trading value on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX)totalled 857 billion VND (36.8 million USD) per trading session in October, up16.5 percent against last month.

Thiswas equivalent to a trading volume of 61.4 million shares during each sessionon the HNX in October, up 5.6 percent month-on-month.

InOctober, there were two newly-established enterprises and two delisted. Ninecompanies registered to add 1 billion additional shares. The HNX now has 353listed companies with total charter capital of 144 trillion VND.

TheHNX-Index often fell sharply in most of the last sessions. At the close of thelast trading session of October, the HNX Index reached 135.34 points, anincrease of 1.81 percent compared to the end of the previous month. Market capitalisationreached more than 240.6 trillion VND, an increase of 1.6 percent.

Totaltrading volume of the whole exchange in October reached 1.35 billion shares,worth more than 18.8 trillion VND.

Totaltrading value of the HNX-30 group reached more than 14.8 trillion VND inOctober, up 38.3 percent against last month and accounted for 78.7 percent oftrading value of the whole northern exchange.

TheHNX-30 tracks the Hanoi Stock Exchange's 30 leading shares in terms of marketcapitalisation and liquidity.

Foreigninvestors' trading volume reached 75.5 million shares, worth more than 1.54trillion VND. Of the estimates, the buying value was over 1.39 trillion VND,the selling value was over 1.37 trillion VND. In October, foreign investors netsold more than 18 billion VND./.
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