One-third main bourse stocks hit ceiling price

The index stayed in the red for the first trading hour but started climbing to close 56.42 points higher.

But it has fallen by 9 percent compared to the beginning of May after closing in the red for six out of ten sessions since.

Trading value on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange, on which the index is based, fell marginally to VND14.3 trillion ($618.6 million).

The VN-30 basket, comprising the 30 largest capped stocks, saw all tickers gaining with 13 of them closing at ceiling price.

BID of state-owned lender BIDV, FPT of IT giant FPT group, MSN of conglomerate Masan Group and MWG of electronics retailer Mobile World all rose by 7 percent.

BVH of insurance company Bao Viet Holdings, CTG of VietinBank, and GVR of Vietnam Rubber Group gained 6.9 percent.

Foreign investors turned net sellers after two straight buying sessions, to the tune of VND27.76 billion. They mainly sold HPG of steelmaker Hoa Phat, SSI of leading brokerage SSI Securities and STB of HCMC-based lender Sacombank.

The HNX-Index for stocks on the Hanoi Stock Exchange, home to mid and small caps, gained 2.73 percent, while the UPCoM-Index for the Unlisted Public Companies Market closed 2.84 percent higher.