VN-Index falls below 400 points
The domestic stock market continued its declining trend on June 4 session with 1.38% and 1.82% drops on the southern and northern bourse respectively. The VN-Index saw its 20th consecutive increase and officially declined to below 400 point-mark while the HASTC-Index was also on the threshold of 100 point mark.
A gloomy atmosphere covered the market as selling orders far outstripped buying. Closing today's session, the VN-Index lost another 5.54 points to end down at 395.66.
Only six stocks listed on the southern bourse reported gains while 145 others declined, 144 of these hitting floor prices. One stock, VPL of Vinpearl JSC maintained its reference price and two others had no trade.
As of today, out of the total 154 listed stocks listed on HOSE, six had been traded at prices under their par value of VND 10,000 a unit. These include two fund certificates, MAFPF1 and PRUBF1 and four other stocks, VPK, DXV, CYC and BBT.
Though total market trading volume was nearly 9 million units worth nearly VND 773 billion, only 1.3 million shares and fund certificates were traded via the order matching method for VND 46 billion. The remaining includes over 7.2 million bonds and more than 460,000 shares bought through negotiations for VND 727 billion.
Top five stocks in terms of trading volume included VIC with 217,760 shares matched, followed by SGT (135,530 units), CII (80,940 units), VIP (68,900 units) and STB (57,800 units).
The only six gainers on today session were DMC, up VND 2,000 a share to VND 104,000 a share; SGH, up VND 1,500 a share; VIC, up VND 1,000 a share; BT6 and SGT, up VND 700 a share each, and CII, up VND 300 a share.
The HASTC-Index of the Hanoi Securities Trading Centre today reported a loss of 2.11 points to close at 113.6. Trading volume was low, at only 850,000 units worth VND 20 billion.
There were only five gainers against 96 losers out of the total 138 listed stocks. Thirty six stocks had no trade at all and one stock stayed unchanged.
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