Market successfully reversed but liquidity is still "at a disadvantage"

The familiar scenario in recent sessions repeated itself. The index opened in the green and gradually lost momentum. Selling pressure gradually increased and dominated. Investor sentiment remained cautious, causing the market to trade in a fragmented manner and liquidity to be quite low.

The large-cap group had a strong differentiation when the index of stocks increased and decreased quite evenly. VRE increased the most with 2.3%, codes BVH, MSN, VNM also increased by more than 1%. Meanwhile, VHM, VCB, BCM all decreased, weighing down the index.

At the end of the morning session on December 1, VN-Index decreased by 0.86 points, equivalent to 0.08% to 1,093.27 points. The entire floor had 143 stocks increasing and 277 stocks decreasing. HNX-Index increased by 1.04 points to 228.07 points. UPCoM-Index decreased by 0.07 points, equivalent to 0.08% to 84.92 points.

Finance - Banking - Market successfully reversed but liquidity is still 'at a disadvantage' — VN-Index performance on December 1 (Source: FireAnt).

Entering the afternoon session, investor sentiment was less negative, the buyers regained the upper hand, helping the market recover strongly in the afternoon session, VN-Index at times increased by nearly 8 points.

At the end of the trading session on December 1, VN-Index increased by 8.03 points, equivalent to 0.73% to 1,102.1 points. The entire floor had 254 stocks increasing, 227 stocks decreasing, and 101 stocks remaining unchanged.

The HNX-Index increased by 0.11 points, equivalent to 0.05% to 226.26 points. The entire floor had 67 stocks increasing, 80 stocks decreasing and 72 stocks remaining unchanged. The UPCoM-Index increased by 0.2 points to 85.19 points.

The VN30 basket alone recorded 23 stocks increasing in price. The large-cap group was the main driving force helping the VN-Index recover strongly at the end of the session. The codes BID, GAS, VNM, HPG, VJC, VCB, VRE, MSN, VPB, VIC contributed 4.8 points to the general market.

The food production group improved when HAG increased by 5.83% and matched orders of 27.3 million units. HAG's increase occurred in the context of HAGL announcing many positive news. Most recently, on November 28, this enterprise paid more than 200 billion VND of HAGLBOND16.26 bond lot. The codes DBC, SBT, BAF, VNM, MSN, KDC also ended the session in green.

Securities stocks led the increase in industry groups when 24/36 codes increased in price, notably VIX, SHS, SSI, VND, VCI, MBS, HCM, CTS, ORS, FTS. On the contrary, some codes ended the session down such as TCI, VFS, TVB, ABW, HBS but did not have much impact on the market.

Despite the divergence, real estate stocks regained their positivity in the afternoon session when DIG, ITA, KBC, VRE, VIC, HDC, SZC all increased by over 1%, the whole group ended the session up slightly by 0.15%. In contrast, VHM decreased by 0.97% and took away 0.5 points from the market.

The heaviest burden on the real estate group in today's session was LDG after the news that Chairman Nguyen Khanh Hung was temporarily detained on the afternoon of November 30. LDG code dropped to the floor right from the opening session on December 1 to VND3,450/share. At the end of the session on December 1, LDG code decreased the remaining sell order by more than 39 million shares and matched orders of 916,500 units.

Finance - Banking - The market reversed successfully but liquidity is still 'at a disadvantage' (Figure 2). — Foreign transactions in the last 10 sessions.

The total value of orders matched in today's session reached VND12,228 billion, down 18% compared to the previous session, of which the value of orders matched on the HoSE floor reached VND14,670 billion, down 17%. In the VN30 group, liquidity reached VND4,059 billion.

Foreign investors continued to net sell with a value of nearly 308.8 billion VND, of which this group disbursed 623.25 billion VND and sold 932 billion VND.

The codes that were sold strongly were VHM 114 billion VND, VIC 95 billion VND, FUEVFVND 45.5 billion VND, DXG 31 billion VND, MSN 24 billion VND,... On the contrary, the codes that were mainly bought were DGC 18.4 billion VND, SSI 16.6 billion VND, GAS 13.5 billion VND, VND 9.7 billion VND, KDH 9.6 billion VND, ...

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