Shares close in red on selling pressure. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) –Shares closed the June 21 session in the red on both local stock exchanges asthe selling pressure had been dominating since the beginning of morningsession, despite the positive performance recorded on the previous day.
The benchmark VN-Indexon the HCM Stock Exchange (HOSE) fell 11.56 points to 969.4 points on lowliquidity while the HNX-Index on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) also lost 1.94points to 110.16 points.
Over 3.58 trillion VND(157.52 million USD) worth of shares were traded in both bourses, a decreasefrom nearly 4.5 trillion VND (198 million USD) from the day before.
Among the VN30tracking the top 30 shares by market capitalization, only Vinamilk (VNM)maintained upward trend to settle at 170,000 VND per shares and Vinhomes (VHM)and Techcombank (TCB) closed the day at their reference prices. The remainingshares were all down.
Shares of IT, banking,rubber and utility firms all crashed more than 2 percent while those ofagricultural–forestry–fishery and food–beverage companies gained 0.29 percentand 0.39 percent, respectively.
The UpCoM–Index wasalso off 0.34 points to 51.79 points.-VNA
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