On the stock market, as of September 24, the VN-Index had reached 1,351.17points, an increase of 1.5 percent compared to the end of the previous monthand up by 22.4 percent compared to the end of 2020. Market capitalisationreached 6.9 quadrillion VND, up 30.6 percent compared to the end of 2020.
In September 2021, the average trading value reached 27.6 trillion VND persession, down 4 percent compared to the previous month. In the first ninemonths of 2021, the average trading value on the market reached 24 trillion VNDper session, up 224 percent compared to the average in 2020.
By the end of August 2021, the market had 737 stock codes and fund certificateslisted on two Stock Exchanges and 901 stock codes trading on the UPCoM with atotal value of 1.6 quadrillion VND, an increase of 7.6 percent compared to theend of 2020.
On the bond market, by the end of August, there were 435 bond codes with alisted value of more than 1.4 quadrillion VND, an increase of 2.9 percentcompared to the end of 2020. The average trading value on the bond market inSeptember reached 9.7 trillion VND per session, up 15 percent compared to theprevious month.
In the first nine months, the average trading value reached 10.94 trillion VND persession, up 5.3 percent compared to the average in 2020.
On the derivatives market, which runs on the large-cap VN30-Index andgovernment bonds, the average trading volume reached 156,531 contracts persession in September, down 38 percent from the previous month.
In the first 9 months, the average trading volume reached 207,171 contracts persession, up 32 percent compared to the average of the previous year.
As of September 17, 2021, open interest volume (OI) reached 30,657 contracts,an increase of 1 percent compared to the end of the previous month and adecrease of 24 percent compared to the end of 2020.
For covered warrant products, the average trading volume in September 2021reached 19.85 million warrants per session, an increase of 95 percent comparedto the previous month. Average trading value reached 42.7 billion VND persession, up 51 percent.
In the first 9 months, the average trading volume of covered warrant reached18.78 million warrants per session, an increase of 59 percent compared to theprevious year's average; average trading value reached 81.3 billion VND persession, up 276 percent./.