Market indices reversed their declines over the past few days, as the new unlisted public companies market (UPCoM) debuted at the Hanoi Securities Trading Centre on June 24.

The HASTC-Index, on June 24 renamed the HNX-Index, gained 5.63 percent and bounced back to 157.63, after three consecutive sessions of declines.

Market turnover on the Hanoi exchange was brisk at 673.7 billion VND (37.8 million USD), on a volume of over 22 million shares. Foreign investors contributed just 39.5 billion VND (2.2 million USD) to the market value, from picking up 1.2 million shares.

In HCM City , the VN-Index rebounded by just over 4 percent to close at 456.22.

Trading value on the HCM Stock Exchange reached about 1.7 trillion VND (36.2 million USD) on a volume of 46.5 million shares. Foreign investors were net sellers of 3.3 million shares, worth 130.7 billion VND (3.1 million USD).

The most active code on the southern exchange was Sacombank (STB), generating orders on June 24 for 9.5 million shares.

The UPCoM-Index, the gauge for the unlisted public companies market (UPCoM), ended the first trading day on UPCoM unchanged, at 100 points.

Trades on the new market generated a value of 19 billion VND (1.07 million USD) on a volume of 1.05 million shares. SME Securities (SME) was the most active stock, with 354,679 shares traded, followed by Trang An Securities (TAS) with 319,605 and APEC Securities (APS) with 171,793./.