Foreign investors turned to net sell 938 billion VND

The lack of leading stocks caused the market to fluctuate right from the opening. However, thanks to the selling pressure slowing down near the 1,225 point mark, the VN-Index ended the morning session close to the reference level.

The large-cap group had strong differentiation, with SHB leading the increase with 2.1%, followed by VJC, VNM, MSN, VIC, TCB, PLX, BCM. Meanwhile, MWG, STB, HDB decreased slightly by more than 1%, while VCB, FPT, MBB, ACB, CTG, HPG, SSI decreased insignificantly.

At the end of the morning session on February 22, VN-Index decreased by 0.52 points, equivalent to 0.05% to 1,229.52 points. The entire floor had 208 stocks increasing and 229 stocks decreasing. HNX-Index increased by 0.41 points to 234.25 points. UPCoM-Index increased by 0.03 points to 90.64 points.

Finance - Banking - Foreign investors turned to net sell 938 billion VND — VN-Index performance on February 22 (Source: FireAnt).

Entering the afternoon session, cash flow entered the market, helping VN-Index rebound above the reference level, however, demand was not strong enough, causing the market to quickly reverse.

At the end of the trading session on February 22, VN-Index decreased by 2.73 points to 1,227.31 points. The entire floor had 217 stocks increasing, 263 stocks decreasing, and 77 stocks remaining unchanged.

HNX-Index increased by 0.16 points to 234 points. On the whole floor, 83 stocks increased, 77 stocks decreased and 73 stocks remained unchanged. UPCoM-Index decreased by 0.03 points to 90.57 points. The VN30 basket witnessed a divergence with 13 stocks increasing in price and 16 stocks decreasing in price.

The "culprit" in today's session can be mentioned as VCB when it took away nearly 2.4 points from the general market, two codes HDB and STB in the banking group also negatively impacted the market. On the contrary, TCB contributed more than 1.1 points to the general index, banking stocks with positive impacts were CTG, SHB, VIB , respectively.

Most industry groups ended the session in red, only telecommunications, oil and gas, food, and tourism groups increased points but the breadth was not too large.

The negativity spread across most securities stocks, for example VND decreased by 0.44%, VIX decreased by 1.63%, SSI decreased by 0.86%, SHS and HCM decreased by 1.12%, MBS decreased by 1.85%, VCI decreased by 1.23%, especially PHS decreased by the floor price of 14.61%.

Finance - Banking - Foreign investors turned to net sell 938 billion VND (Figure 2). — Foreign block transaction developments.

The total value of matched orders in today's session was VND20,307 billion, down 18%, of which the value of matched orders on the HoSE floor reached VND17,950 billion, down 21%. In the VN30 group, liquidity reached VND7,501 billion.

Notably, after 3 consecutive sessions of net buying, foreign investors turned to strong net selling with a value of 938 billion VND today, of which this group disbursed 1,098 billion VND and sold 2,036 billion VND.

The codes that were sold strongly were HPG 150 billion VND, VPB 117 billion VND, MSN 110 billion VND, MWG 105 billion VND, STB 96 billion VND,... On the contrary, the codes that were mainly bought were DGC 54 billion VND, ASM 49 billion VND, IDC 34 billion VND, PVD 26 billion VND, CTD 19 billion VND,... .

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