The Vietnamese stock market opened in a state of excitement after FTSE announced the upgrade. However, towards the end of the morning session, many industry groups unexpectedly weakened, causing the VN-Index to increase by only 12.53 points to 1,697.83 points, with the matched value on HoSE reaching more than VND33,207 billion.
The HNX-Index and UPCoM-Index also agreed to increase, up 0.17% and 0.17% respectively.
Banking stocks continued to lead the market. Large stocks such as CTG (+2.52%), STB (+2.39%), VCB (+1.41%), MSB (+1.49%),ACB (+1.13%), VIX (+1.6%) all recorded quite good gains. However, some stocks were still differentiated when TCB (-1.03%), LPB (-1.14%), HCM (-0.72%) made slight adjustments after a period of overheating.
Stocks jumped today on the first day of market upgrade. (Illustration photo)
The real estate group also increased, in which VHM (+4.27%), VRE (+3.71%), CEO (+2.05%), DXG (+0.24%) all increased points, while large codes such as VIC (-1.06%) or PDR (-0.22%) decreased slightly. The positive spread came from the information that the Government is completing the legal framework for the social housing market and loosening real estate credit.
The industrial and construction group also regained momentum with GEX (+1.1%), DPG (+4.27%), while VSC (-3.76%), VCG (-1.07%) slightly decreased due to profit-taking pressure. Steel stocks HPG (+0.69%), NKG (+2.31%) continued to rise thanks to the recovery of world steel prices.
Notably, in today's session, foreign investors unexpectedly returned to net buying about 156 billion VND in the whole market.
On HoSE, foreign investors net bought approximately 234 billion VND, in which GEX and MWG stocks were the ones that foreign investors poured the most net into the whole market with a value of more than 260 billion VND each. Following a series of bluechip stocks that were net bought for more than 100 billion VND, including: HPG (+179 billion); VCB (+130 billion); STB (+107 billion).
On HNX, foreign investors net sold about 61 billion VND, in which IDC and CEO stocks were net sold strongly with values of 48 billion and 15 billion VND respectively, PLC, VGS and MST were also net sold 2 billion VND each.
On UpCOM, foreign investors net sold approximately 16 billion VND, of which DDV shares were net sold with a value of 18 billion, BVB was net sold 1 billion while HBC, AVF and ABB were net sold insignificantly.
Early this morning, after many years of reform efforts, the Vietnamese stock market has "moved up the rankings" on the global financial map when it was recognized by FTSE Russell as a secondary emerging market.
Market rating organization FTSE Russell has officially announced upgrading Vietnam's stock market from frontier market to secondary emerging market.
This is an important historical milestone, marking a remarkable development of the Vietnamese stock market after many years of comprehensive reform efforts. This upgrade decision shows that the Vietnamese stock market has fully met the strict criteria on transparency, foreign investors' accessibility, payment mechanism, transactions and information disclosure according to international standards.
Source: https://vtcnews.vn/khoi-ngoai-quay-dau-mua-rong-sau-tin-chung-khoan-viet-nam-duoc-nang-hang-ar970031.html
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