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Foreign investors remained a major drag on Vietnam’s stock market, continuing to net-sell across all three exchanges during the week of April 20–24. The VN-Index recovered toward 1,880 points before renewed selling pressure returned.
Despite the foreign outflows, the VN-Index rose to 1,853.29, up 36.12 points (+1.99%) over the period.
Foreign investors net-sold a total of 4,816 billion VND across the market. By exchange, net selling was 4,670 billion VND on HoSE, 123 billion VND on HNX, and 23 billion VND on UPCoM.
On the buy side, HPG led net buying with about 209.0 billion VND, followed by MSN with 169.8 billion and MWG with 166.9 billion.
On the sell side, FPT was the largest net seller with about 928.2 billion VND. Other notable net selling included ACB (-549.0 billion) and VCB (-526.0 billion).
Several other shares also saw meaningful foreign outflows, including VHM (-301.2 billion), VPB (-223.6 billion), BSR (-189.0 billion), BID (-184.3 billion), CTG (-178.9 billion), GAS (-112.0 billion), PVD (-104.0 billion), KDH (-82.0 billion) and PLX (-82.0 billion).
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