On August 15, VN-Index broke its upward streak and left its historical level.

In the trading session on August 15, selling pressure increased sharply, causing the VN-Index to reverse, falling more than 10 points, ending a streak of 9 consecutive rising sessions, and leaving the historical peak.

On the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, the market was green for most of the morning session. However, near the end of the session, strong selling pressure pushed the index representing the floor to red. At the end of the morning session, the VN-Index temporarily stopped at 1,639.45 points, down 1.24 points.

Many codes in the financial sector decreased in price. Screenshot

In the afternoon, at first, the market continued to decrease in a narrow range and sometimes showed green. However, from 2:00 p.m. onwards, selling pressure increased, causing the market to decrease further. At the end of the session, VN-Index stopped at 1,630 points, down 10.69 points (-0.65%); VN30-Index was at 1,783.25 points after falling 10.53 points (-0.59%).

Thus, after a series of 9 consecutive sessions of increase and closing at the highest level in history of 1,640.69 points, the market turned around and went down.

Declining stocks dominated with 261 stocks going down, only 84 stocks going up. In the VN30 group, stocks falling in price were twice as many as rising stocks (19 stocks and 9 stocks).

Selling pressure caused many pillar stocks to fall in price. Of the 10 stocks with the largest capitalization, 5 were red, only 3 were green, and the rest remained unchanged.

Most industry groups decreased in points; in which, vehicles and components, software and services, telecommunications services, hardware and equipment were the industries that decreased by more than 2%.

On the contrary, the energy sector performed most positively with an increase of 2.61%, while other sectors increased by less than 1%.

The strongest support for the market in this session was VJC with a contribution of 1.27 points to the VN-Index; followed by BSR (1.21 points), MBB (nearly 1 point), VIX (0.87 points).

If yesterday's session, banking stocks strongly supported the market, today, on the contrary, they took away the most points. BID took away 1.85 points, VCB took away 1.75 points, CTG took away nearly 1.5 points, TCB took away 1.3 points...

Liquidity was high with nearly VND60,000 billion changed hands. Foreign investors were net sellers on a large scale. This group bought more than VND4,543 billion and sold nearly VND7,559 billion.

On the Hanoi Stock Exchange, at the end of the session, the HNX-Index closed at 282.34 points after falling 2.81 points (-0.99%); the HNX30-Index fell 12.15 points (-1.9%), to 627.74 points. The entire exchange had more than 5,000 billion VND changed hands.

Source: https://hanoimoi.vn/phien-ngay-15-8-vn-index-dut-mach-len-diem-roi-muc-lich-su-712761.html