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Late buying lifts stocks for second day

A trading session at the Hà Nội Stock Exchange. - VNA/VNS Photo Phạm Hậu

HÀ NỘI – Vietnamese shares struggled to extend gains yesterday on late buying in large-cap stocks during the near-end period of the session.

The benchmark VN Index on the HCM Stock Exchange rose 0. 八 per cent to close at  六 六 三. 三 七 points, making a two-day increase of  一. 八 per cent.

The HNX Index on the smaller Hà Nội Stock Exchange edged up 0. 二 per cent to end at  八 二. 九0 points, up 0. 七 per cent after the last two sessions.

“Late buying from domestic investors and the decrease of foreign selling were the major factors that helped boost the market,” BIDV Securities Co (BSC) wrote in its daily report.

“Investor sentiment also improved after the exchange-traded funds (ETFs) completed re-arranging their investment portfolios last week.”

“Those factors helped bolster investor confidence in large-cap stocks and directly drove the market up,” BSC said.

Better investor confidence helped lift five of the  一0 largest stocks by market capitalisation, including Vietcombank (VCB), the Bank for Investment and Development of Việt Nam (BID), PetroVietnam Gas Corp (GAS), property and retail firm Vingroup JSC (VIC) and consumer goods producer Masan Group (MSN).

VCB rose  二. 二 per cent, BID was up  一. 三 per cent, GAS and MSN jumped  三. 一 per cent and  三. 二 per cent, respectively, and VIC edged up 0. 七 per cent.

Other blue chips such as dairy firm Vinamilk (VNM) were also boosted after falling  二. 二 per cent to near the lowest trading value of the day at VNĐ 一 三 三,000 per share. VNM closed flat yesterday.

Foreign investors remained as net sellers for a  一 五th day, recording a net sell value of VNĐ 五 七. 三 七 billion (US$ 二. 五 七 million) on the two local exchanges yesterday, nearly five-fold the value made on Monday. However, this was much lower than last week’s daily average net foreign sell value of nearly VNĐ 四00 billion.

Yesterday, the Vietnamese central bank cut its daily reference mid-point rate for currency trading between the đồng and the US dollar by VNĐ 六 to VNĐ 二 一, 九 五 三 for one US dollar. The reference mid-point rate has been on an upward trend for the last six weeks, hitting the highest value of VNĐ 二 一, 九 五 九 on Monday.

“Investors should keep watching the changes of the reference mid-point rate closely as the US central bank may increase its interest rate in September – the first rate hike this year – and Việt Nam may have to deal with a trade deficit during the year-end,” Bảo Việt Securities Co said in a note.

Better investor sentiment also resulted in a rise in market trading liquidity. More than  一 六0 million shares were exchanged yesterday worth VNĐ 三. 五 四 trillion, an increase of  二 二. 七 per cent from Monday’s trading value. - VNS