The stock market has a correction after many sessions of increase.

At the close of the morning trading session on April 15, red spread across the entire Vietnamese stock market with the VN-Index falling 11.88 points to 1,229.56 points, and the HNX-Index falling 3.55 points to 211.45 points.

Contrary to the world market developments, the Vietnamese stock market had its first decline after a series of 3 days of strong increases since the end of last week.

Closing the trading session on the morning of April 15, red spread across the entire floor.

VN-Index decreased by 11.88 points to 1,229.56 points. HNX-Index decreased by 3.55 points to 211.45 points. UPCoM-Index decreased by 0.9 points to 90.86 points.

Previously, selling pressure suddenly increased sharply right at the opening, causing the VN-Index to lose more than 13 points. After 1 hour of trading, the index recorded a bounce back to the reference zone and fluctuated slightly.

However, increased selling pressure put pressure on the market, causing most industry stocks to fall.

The VN30 basket only had a few stocks increase such as HPG, VCB, VHM, VIC, VRE reference, the rest decreased and hit the floor. This caused the market to widen its decline compared to before.

In contrast, Wall Street stocks closed the first trading session of the week with strong gains.

Investors reacted positively to softer signals from the US on trade issues, including tariff exemptions for some key electronics items.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.8% to close at 40,524.79. The S&P 500 also rose 0.8% to 5,405.97, while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.6% to 16,831.48.

Elsewhere, Goldman Sachs shares rose 1.9% after posting better-than-expected earnings on a surge in equity trading revenue.

This week, investors will focus on important financial reports from major companies such as Citigroup, United Airlines, UnitedHealth Group and Netflix.

There is also the March 2025 retail sales report and the European Central Bank (ECB) monetary policy meeting./.

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