Selling pressure increases, VN-Index breaks through 1,240 point mark

After nearly an hour of trading below reference price, the green color returned to the pillar stocks, helping the market gradually recover. However, the high selling pressure of the pillar stocks also caused the VN-Index to break the 1,250 point mark at the end of the morning session.

The VN30 basket had 22 stocks decreasing but only 6 stocks increasing, with three stocks VHM, CTG and GAS causing the most negative pressure, taking away a total of more than 1.6 points. The steel group also suffered from reversal pressure with a narrow amplitude, for example HPG, HSG, NKG.

At the end of the morning session on September 16, VN-Index decreased by 4.62 points, equivalent to 0.37% to 1,247.09 points. The entire floor had 115 stocks increasing and 252 stocks decreasing.

VN-Index performance on September 16 (Source: FireAnt).

Entering the afternoon session, investors' cautious psychology became more evident, causing selling pressure to overwhelm, the electronic board was covered in red, and the VN-Index broke the 1,240 point mark.

At the end of the trading session on September 16, VN-Index decreased by 12.45 points, equivalent to 0.99% to 1,239.26 points. The whole floor had 97 stocks increasing, 312 stocks decreasing, and 62 stocks remaining unchanged.

HNX-Index decreased 1.58 points to 230.84 points. The entire floor had 58 stocks increasing, 96 stocks decreasing and 61 stocks remaining unchanged. UPCoM-Index decreased 0.38 points to 92.57 points.

VCB led the market decline when it took away nearly 1.4 points, two codes BID and CTG in the banking group also had a negative impact on the market when they took away a total of nearly 1 point. Red covered the entire industry, only NAB, VAB, TIN ended the session in green and some reference codes such as TCB, MBB, EIB, SSB, MSB,VIB .

The trio of Vin stocks also put pressure on the index, with VHM and VIC taking away nearly 2.2 points. Most stocks fell, with only a few stocks moving in the opposite direction such as KHG, EVG, KDH, TIG, IDJ, DLG, LDG.

Meanwhile, in the food production group, there were 3 prominent codes that hit the ceiling price: HNG, VHE, AGM. However, other codes in the industry were still covered in red, such as BAF, DBC, MSN, VNM, HAG, PAN, SBT.

Codes affecting VN-Index (Source: VNDIRECT).

The total value of matched orders in today's session was VND14,786 billion, up 17% compared to the previous day, of which the value of matched orders on the HoSE floor reached VND13,485 billion. In the VN30 group, liquidity reached VND6,757 billion.

Foreign investors net bought 219 billion VND in today's session, of which they disbursed 1,272 billion VND and sold 1,053 billion VND.

The codes that were sold heavily were HSG 43 billion VND, MWG 41 billion VND, VCI 33 billion VND, HPG 23 billion VND, PDR 23 billion VND,... On the contrary, the codes that were mainly bought were TCB 70 billion VND, NAB 54 billion VND,FPT 53 billion VND, VNM 49 billion VND, CTG 39 billion VND,...

Source: https://www.nguoiduatin.vn/ap-luc-ban-gia-tang-vn-index-thung-moc-1240-diem-204240916153420422.htm