On the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE),selling pressure still dominated the market at the beginning of the tradingsession, pulling the VN-Index down to 1,049 points.
However, demand appeared at the end of themorning session. Notably, up to 8.7 million VIC shares were traded atapproximately 1.1 trillion VND (48.34 million USD), helping VIC to close at127,000 VND per share (up 0.38 percent).
Among large-cap stocks, GAS, MSN, VCB and BIDattracted buyers and were coloured green at the end of the trading session.
While insurance stocks grew by 2.74 percent,utilities and property stocks respectively increased 2.95 percent and 2.18percent.
The VN-Index rose 3.96 points to close at1,080.74 points. Meanwhile, the HNX-Index on the Hanoi Stock Exchange inched up0.16 point to 126.3 points.
However, UpCoM Index on the Unlisted PublicCompany Market (UpCoM) fell 0.08 point to 57.06 points.-VNA