Foreign investors trade large volumes as the market is dyed red.

The market continued to open in a tug-of-war with red covering all industry groups, in which some leading stocks such as VNM decreased by 1.38%, MSN decreased by 2.75% and SAB decreased by 0.86%, the VN-Index also decreased by more than 5 points, to 1,102.06 points.

The market went down towards the middle of the session with an increasingly large decrease, while the buying force was quite weak, selling pressure continued to increase towards the end of the session, causing the VN-Index to gradually decline.

At the end of the morning session on October 23, VN-Index decreased by 17.5 points, equivalent to 1.58% to 1,090.53 points. The entire floor had 95 stocks increasing, and 367 stocks decreasing. HNX-Index decreased by 1.66 points, equivalent to 0.73% to 226.79 points. UPCoM-Index decreased by 0.41 points, equivalent to 0.48% to 85.21 points.

Finance - Banking - Foreign investors trade large volumes as the market is dyed red — Top stocks that impact the general market.

In the afternoon session, VN-Index continued to fall deeply and remained below 1,100 points, although the market had previously made great efforts to climb to this mark, liquidity was still sluggish with slight net selling from foreign investors.

At the end of the trading session on October 23, VN-Index decreased by 14.5 points, equivalent to 1.31% to 1,093 points. The entire floor had 91 stocks increasing, 398 stocks decreasing and 64 stocks remaining unchanged.

HNX-Index decreased by 2.19 points, equivalent to 0.96% to 226.26 points. The entire floor had 74 stocks increasing, 100 stocks decreasing and 59 stocks remaining unchanged. UPCoM-Index decreased by 0.35 points to 85.27 points. In particular, the VN30 basket recorded 27 stocks decreasing in price.

Although the previous sessions increased evenly, the mining stocks group showed signs of turning around in the afternoon session with PVS down 1.8%, PVD down 1.41%, KSV down 2.37%, KSB down 1.74%, PVC down 1.69%, DHA down 1.65%,... the entire industry group took away 3.54 points from the general market.

Next, the seafood processing group continued to put strong pressure on the market with the strongest decrease of 2.96% when from large codes VHC, ANV, FMC, IDI to small codes ABT, KHS all decreased by approximately 3%.

Finance - Banking - Foreign investors traded in large volumes when the market was dyed in red (Figure 2). — Foreign investors continue to net buy at the bottom.

The total order matching value in the session reached VND13,910 billion, down 16% compared to the previous session, of which the order matching value on HoSE alone reached VND12,123 billion, down 15%. In the VN30 group, liquidity reached VND5,486 billion.

Foreign investors are equally divided between buyers and sellers with the buying value today being only 85 billion VND, of which this group disbursed 1,845 billion VND and sold 1,760 billion VND.

The codes that were bought heavily were mainly IDC 31 billion VND, FPT 21 billion VND, KBC 21 billion VND, QNS 11 billion VND, KDH 5 billion VND... On the contrary, the codes that were sold heavily were MWG 162 billion VND, VNM 71 billion VND, MSN 69 billion VND, SSI 61 billion VND, VND 52 billion VND,... .

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