April 23, Stock descend again, VN Index slips to below 530pts

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Ending the trading session today April 23, the 1772nd trading session of the Vietnamese stock market, the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HOSE) continued falling when the VN Index lost another 8.67 points or 1.63% to 521.95 pts with the total matching order trade of 4,422,390 shares and fund certificates worth over 190 billion dong, marking the fourth consecutive decreasing session on the stock market.

Among 154 shares and fund certificates being listed on the southern bourse, the stock market recorded 15 shares increasing, nine others remained unchanged, three shares with no transactions and 127 shares decreasing.

Some share codes increasing were ABT, SBT, SHC, LBM, TTC and HIS.
Particularly, VNM and PVD lost 2,000 dong to 126,000 dong and 114,000 dong per share respectively, STB and PPC dropped 700 dong to 36,100 dong and 38,500 dong, FPT and VIC slipped 1,500 dong to 87,000 and 90,500 dong and DPM, ITA, HPG and SSI lost 1,000 dong per share.

DPM reached the biggest trading volume with over one million shares and followed by SBT with 626,230 shares, VNM with 189,200, VTO with 164,470 and others including TTC, DPR, PVD and SSI.

Foreign investors bought in 63 share codes with the total trading volume of 1,927,010 shares. Of which, DPM-coded shares reached the biggest trading volume with 760,490 shares, VTO with 181,680, VNM with 145,870 and others like SSI, ANV and PVD.

Influenced from the southern bourse, the Hanoi Securities Trading Center (HaSTC) today April 23 kept falling impetus on the stock market as the HaSTC Index slipped another 3.86 points or 2.22% to end at 170.4 pts with the total market trade of 1,948,900 shares worth nearly 76 billion dong.

Amongst 135 listed shares on the northern bourse, the stock market saw 13 shares increasing while 107 others decreasing, five shares stood still and ten shares with no trades.

Five shares remained unchanged including HEV, KBC, L18, SAP and SD5.

Ten shares with no trades were C92, CID, DST, HSC, HUT, KMF, NGC, NPS, SD3 and VE9.

13 shares increasing included BHV up 700 dong, DAC +800, DCS +400, DTC +1,600, HLY +1,100, HPS +400, LBE +100, LTC +300, MIC +2,400, SCC +200, SDY +400, VNR +100 and VTS leaped 1,000 dong per share.

Meanwhile, S99 was the biggest decliner as losing 2,700 dong and followed by ACB lost 2,500 dong, BVS slipped 2,400, VSP dropped 2,300, RCL slashed 2,100 and SCJ down 2,000 dong per share.

ACB took the first place in trading volume with 216,600 shares, followed by DBC with 171,700 shares, NTP with 156,500 and NVC with 116,100 shares and others with below 100,000 shares being traded.