VHM and VIC stocks strongly support the market

In the trading session on June 17, the VN-Index continued to increase by more than 9 points thanks to strong support from VHM and VIC stocks.

On the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, in the morning session, continuing yesterday's upward momentum, good demand helped the VN-Index increase immediately after opening. Notably, at 10:17 the VN-Index reached more than 1,350 points, up more than 14 points.

After reaching the above high, the supply increased, causing the increase to slow down. At the end of the morning trading session, VN-Index reached 1,344.88 points, up 6.77 points.

VN-Index's performance on June 17. Screenshot

In the afternoon trading session, there was a time when the floor's representative index was close to the reference level, but near the end of the session, demand improved, helping the market increase better.

Closing the session, VN-Index stopped at 1,347.69 points, up 9.58 points (0.72%); VN30-Index increased 11.04 points (0.78%), to 1,431.39 points.

The entire floor recorded 177 stocks going up and 133 stocks going down. In the VN30 group, the number of stocks increasing in price was more than twice as many as decreasing in price (19 stocks and 8 stocks).

Pillar stocks performed positively. Of the 10 stocks with the largest capitalization, only 1 was in red.

VHM and VIC were the two stocks with the best price increases in this group, of which VHM increased by 3.26%, contributing the most to the VN-Index with 2.15 points; VIC contributed 2.1 points after "increasing" by 2.69%. The largest stock in the market was VCB, contributing 1.17 points.

Specialized services and trade and real estate were the two most positive sectors in this session, both up more than 2%.

Liquidity reached nearly VND21,000 billion. The bright spot in the market was foreign investors' net buying. This group bought more than VND2,441 billion and sold nearly VND1,870 billion.

On the Hanoi Stock Exchange, the HNX-Index closed up 0.12 points (0.05%), stopping at 228.24 points; the HNX30-Index was at 472.65 points after falling 0.53 points (-0.11%). The total transaction value reached more than 1,700 billion VND.

Source: https://hanoimoi.vn/co-phieu-vhm-va-vic-ho-tro-manh-thi-truong-705861.html