April 18, Stock market fall slightly

Friday, April 18, 2008
The Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HOSE) today April 18 closed a week by seeing a slight slip on the stock market when the VN Index dropped slightly 0.27 points or 0.05% to end at 537.31 pts with the total matching order trade of 10,844,280 million shares and fund certificates worth nearly 579 billion dong.
Among 153 shares and fund certificates being listed on the southern bourse, the stock market recorded 51 shares increasing, 15 others remained unchanged and 87 shares decreasing.
Out of the top ten shares with the largest market capitalisation, the stock market recorded four shares increasing namely VNM and PVD added 2,000 dong to 124,000 and 113,000 dong per share, DPM up 1,000 to 53,000 and PPC leaped 300 dong to 39,500 dong per share, SSI stood still at 56,000 dong.
Meanwhile STB lost 700 dong to 38,200 dong, HPG and ITA slipped 1,000 to 66,000 and 69,500 dong, VIC and FPT lost 1,500 dong per share.
DPM reached the biggest trading volume with 1,785,770 shares and followed by SSI with over 1.3 million shares, STB with 1.228 million shares and others with below 300,000 shares like FPT, PVD, VSH, PPC and SBT.
Foreign investors bought 84 share codes with over 3.8 million shares with the biggest trading volume of 913,420 DPM-coded shares and followed by SSI with 681,880 shares, PVD with 234,260 shares and others including VSH, PPC, VNM and DPR.
Similar to the Hanoi Securities Trading Center (HaSTC), the HaSTC-Index also slipped 4.97 points or 2.69% to end at 179.77 pts with the total market trade of 3,696,800 shares worth over 141 billion dong.
Amongst 133 listed shares on the northern bourse, the stock market saw 57 shares increasing while 66 others decreasing, four shares stood still and six shares with no trades.
Six shares with no trades included BTH, HSC, NPS, PJC, VBH and YSC.
Four shares stood still including CTN, MCO, SRB and VTV.
MIC was the biggest gainer when adding 2,200 dong per share and followed by BVS up 2,000 dong, SDC leaped 1,000 dong and others increased below 1,000 dong per share.
Meanwhile VSP showed the strongest decline when losing 1,900 dong and followed by SD7 losing 1,800, CDC and NBC sliping 1,600 and SNG dropping 1,500 dong per share.
KLS took the first place in trading volume with 306,500 shares, followed by DBC with 268,000 shares, PVI with 264,000, ACB with 216,700 shares and PVS with 213,800 shares.