Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Under selling pressure from the beginning of the session, the VN-Index wasdown by over 18.39 points at the end of December 17 from the previous day, endingup at 933.65 points.
The transaction volumereached 255.17 million shares with a total value of more than 3.54 trillion VND(152.22 million USD). Upturn was recorded in the prices of 66 codes, while theprices of 44 others were unchanged, and 231 codes down.
The HNX-Index on theHanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) decreased 1.64 points to 105.01 points, with morethan 40 million shares traded for over 540.1 billion VND. At the same time, theprice of VIC suffered a slight drop of 0.2 percent, while that of VHM lost 2.9percent.
In the VN30 basket,as many as 26 codes went down, while only two others – DHG and PNJ – had increased.The sharpest fall was seen in the prices of MSN with 4.1 percent, followed byHSG with 3.4 percent, and HPG with 3.3 percent.
The prices of themajority of banking shares dropped strongly, along with petroleum shares.Notably, PLX price fell 5 percent, while the prices of TCB and VIB were down4.4 percent and 4.1 percent respectively.
During the session, foreigninvestors sold 402 shares for 27.92 billion VND on the Ho Chi Minh StockExchange (HoSE) and 282,356 shares on the HNX. –VNA
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