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Stock markets opened the first trading session of Monday, May 11, and continued to rise. However, selling pressure at higher prices increased toward the close, causing the VN-Index to fail to hold the 1,900-point psychological level. The index closed down 19.87 points (-1.04%) at 1,895.50 points.
Foreign investors continued net selling across the market, totaling nearly 1,004 billion dong.
Brokerage houses’ proprietary trading net sold 430 billion dong on HOSE.
The strongest net selling by proprietary trading was recorded at GEL (-268 billion dong), followed by FPT (-139 billion dong), HPG (-33 billion dong), MWG (-30 billion dong) and MSN (-27 billion dong). Other stocks also saw net selling, including VRE (-14), STB (-12), VIC (-10), LPB (-8) and KDH (-7) billion dong.
On the other side, VPB was the strongest net buy at 31 billion dong. This was followed by EIB (29), HAH (24), FRT (19), CTD (16), VHM (14) and KBC (13) billion dong. VPX and TCB both recorded net buying of 9 billion dong, while DBC was net bought 8 billion dong.
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