VN-Index rises slightly on November 5

The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) inched up 0.67 point to settle at 925.53 points on November 5, driven by petroleum and banking stocks.
VN-Index rises slightly on November 5 ảnh 1The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) inched up 0.67 point to settle at 925.53 points on November 5, driven by petroleum and banking stocks (Illustrative photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The benchmarkVN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) inched up 0.67 point tosettle at 925.53 points on November 5, driven by petroleum and banking stocks.

Some 136.5million shares were traded on the day, worth about 3.17 trillion VND (135.15 millionUSD). There were 129 advancing codes, 137 declining, and 72 others thatremained the same.

Meanwhile, theHNX-Index on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) closed at 105.54 points afterlosing 0.21 point, with 70 rising codes, 78 in decline, and 43 others remainedunchanged.

In the VN30basket, as many as 15 codes went up, while nine others decreased. The index marginallyrose by 1.4 points, equivalent to 0.15 percent.

Shares withthe largest rise were HSG by 6 percent, VRE by 3.5 percent, SBT 3.4 percent,and CII 3.1 percent.

Petroleumstocks enjoyed an increase on the day, with PVD advancing by 4 percent, PVS by 2.1percent, PLX 1.5 percent, and PVB 1.1 percent.

Some shares inthe banking group ended in red at the end of the day, while those of TPB, BID,VPB, and TCB expanded from 0.9 percent to 3.1 percent.

Foreigninvestors posted net purchase values of around 63.76 billion VND (2.72 millionUSD) and more than 3 billion VND (127,900 USD) on the HOSE and HNX,respectively.

On the HOSE,HPG topped the list with over 100.68 billion VND worth of shares, followed byMSN with 53.51 billion VND.–VNA 
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