A Vietinbank office. The bank’s shares finished Thursday up 2.2 per cent. — Photo vneconomy.vn Vietnamese shares advanced on Thursday as attention was shifted to banking, securities, technology and retail companies. The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange rose 0.20 per cent to close at 997.10 points. The VN-Index dropped slightly by 0.16 per cent on Wednesday. Nearly 187 million shares were traded on the southern bourse, worth VND3.9 trillion (US$167.7 million). Large-cap stocks lifted the market as the VN30-Index increased by 0.59 per cent to 918.88 points. In the VN30 basket, 13 of the 30 largest stocks by market capitalisation and trading liquidity made gains while 15 declined. Among the biggest increasing large-cap stocks were Vietinbank (CTG), Sacombank (STB), Mobile World Investment Corp (MWG), FPT Corp (FPT), SSI Securities Corp (SSI) and HCM City Securities Corp (HCM). Those stocks were also the driving force for their industries. The banking, securities, technology and retail sector indices were up between 0.9 per cent and 2.4 per cent, data on vietstock.vn showed. Mid-cap and small-cap stock indices VNMID-Index and VNSML-Index made modest gains of 0.09 per cent and 0.25 per cent. Sai Gon-Ha Noi Securities Corp (SHS) attributed the… Read full this story
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