April 08, Huge number of stock brought onto the market

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) today April 08 continued increasing on the stock market as the VN-Index jumped 6.23 points or 1.14% to end at 548.56 pts with the total matching order trade of 25,603,980 shares and fund certificates worth over 1.244 trillion dong, marking a new record of trading volume and turnover in comparison with the earlier record of 25,046,350 shares on March 10.

Among 153 shares and fund certificates being listed on the southern bourse, the stock market recorded9shares hitting the ceiling price, 12 others remained unchanged and 43 shares decreasing.

Out of key stocks, SSI lost 500 dong to 59,000 dong per share and FPT slipped 1,000 dong to 98,500 dong per share. Others like STB and PPC up 700 dong to 39,700 dong and 40,000 dong per share, HPG and DPM leaped 1,000 dong to 70,500 dong and 52,000 dong per share, VNM, VPL and PVD jumped 2,000 dong to 117,000, 127,000 and 113,000 dong per share.

SSI took the pole place in trading volume with over 3.7 million shares being traded and followed by STB with over 3.6 million shares, DPM with 2,428,410 shares and others like PPC, HPG, FPT and REE.

Foreign investors bought over five million shares with the biggest trading volume of 892,990 SSI-coded shares and followed by DPM with 616,290 shares and other Blue-chips.

The Hanoi Securities Trading Center (HaSTC) tumbled on the stock market when the HaSTC Index fell 0.78 points or 0.39% to end at 197.55 pts with the total market trade of 13,141,500 shares worth over 576 billion dong.

Amongst 132 listed shares on the northern bourse, the stock market saw 25 shares decreasing while 95 others increasing, 11 shares stood still and one share with no trades.

The sole share with no trades was HSC.

11 stood still including BBS, BHV, BTS, LBE, PPG, SD7, SDY, SJE, TKU, TLC, TXM, VFR and VNR.

KBC was the biggest decliner when losig 2,400 dong and followed by VSP lost 1,100 dong and others lost below 1,000 dong per share.

KLS reached the biggest trading volume with 1,419,600 shares, followed by ACB with 983,700 shares, PVS with 893,100, PVI with 696,600, TBC with 608,500 and HPC with 540,200 shares being trade.