New stock trading accounts hit record high in March

An investor at Vietcombank Securities Company (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - Securities companies registered 113,875 new domestic tradingaccounts during March, breaking the record set in January of 86,107, accordingto the Vietnam Securities Depository (VSD).

As of the end of March, there were more than 3 million trading accounts in thestock market, including over 2.98 million opened by individual investors and11,630 by organisational players.

The stock market saw nearly 258,000 new trading accounts opened in the firstquarter, accounting for 65 percent of the figure recorded in 2020 as a whole.

SSI Securities Corporation said Vietnam’s stock market experienced a specialquarter, reaching the 1,200-point threshold three times.

The market suffered its sharpest decline in history on January 28 as a resultof panic selling after new community transmissions of the coronavirus werereported. The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) fell 73.23points, or 6.67 percent, to close at 1,023.94 points. It quickly recovered to1,191.44 points by the end of the March 31 trading session, increasing 7.93percent from the beginning of the year./.

VNA