April 29, VN Index surges, HaSTC Index slumps

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Ending the last trading session of April, the 1776th trading session of the Vietnamese stock market, the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HOSE) kept its increasing impetus on the stock market as the VN Index rose 2.94 points or 0.56% to 522.36 pts with the total matching order trade of over 9.5 million shares and fund certificates worth over 403 billion dong, marking the second consecutively increasing session on the stock market.
Among 154 shares and fund certificates being listed on the southern bourse, the stock market saw 65 shares increasing while 18 others stood still at the reference price, 71 shares decreasing. Of which, some 50 share codes reached the ceiling price and 60 others fell to floor price.
Particularly, STB lost 600 dong to 33,500 dong, SSI slipped 1,000 to 49,000 dong, FPT down 1,500 to 81,000 dong per share.
Others reached the ceiling price including VNM, VPL and PVD up 2,000 dong to 134,000 dong, 117,000 dong and 117,000 dong, DPM, HPG and ITA up 1,000 dong, VIC leaped 1,500 dong and PPC jumped 700 dong per share.
STB reached the biggest trading volume with 1,769,600 shares, DPM with 1,279,060, PRUBF1 with 431,120, PPC with 380,420 and others like VSH, FPT, SSI and HPG.
Foreign investors bought 79 shares with the total volume of 2,669,180 shares. DPM kept the first place with 658,350 shares, PPC with 299,080. VSH with 226,710, PVD with 141,270 and VIC with 136,850 shares.
Conversely, the Hanoi Securities Trading Center (HaSTC) today April 29 slumped on the stock market as the HaSTC Index dropped 2.00 points or 1.17% to end at 169.11 pts with the total market trade of 3,255,900 shares worth nearly 113 billion dong.
Amongst 135 listed shares on the northern bourse, the stock market saw 59 shares increasing while 65 others decreasing, four shares stood still and seven shares with no trades.
Four shares stood still including DSC, SIC, SJM and XMC.
Seven shares with no trade were CTB, HSC, HUT, KMF, LBE, NPS and VE9.
MIC was the biggest gainer when adding 2,700 dong and followed by SCJ up 1,800 dong and VTS leaped 1,000 dong. Others increased below 1,000 dong per share.
S99 and SD2 showed the strongest decrease when losing 1,600 dong and followed by SD7 lost 1,500 dong, HLY and SDA down 1,300, BVS slipped 1,200 and L62, PSC, PVC and SNG dropped 1,000 dong per share.
DBC took the pole place in trading volume with 327,400 shares, followed by KLS with 204,200 shares, HNM with 185,600 and ACB with 158,700 shares being traded.