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The stock market opened the week on April 20 with losses and retreated toward the 1,800-point level. The main VN-Index later recovered and rose, with turnover improving in the afternoon session. At the close, the VN-Index increased by 19.94 points (1.10%) to 1,837.11 points.
In foreign trading, the market returned to net selling, with foreign investors selling a total of 629 billion dong across the market.
Brokerage houses’ proprietary trading net bought 1,068 billion dong on HoSE.
On the buying side, VHM was the top net buyer with 112 billion dong. Other notable net purchases included MSN (95 billion), HDB (92 billion), ACB (89 billion), MWG (88 billion), VPB (77 billion), VIC (64 billion), STB (47 billion), KBC (45 billion), and FPT (41 billion) dong.
On the selling side, the strongest net seller among brokerages was DGC with -20 billion dong, followed by TPB (-13), VCI (-9), DIG (-6), and HDG (-3). Other names such as HHV (-2), FUEVN100, HSG, and FUESSV30 recorded around -1 billion each, while ANV logged about -0.4 billion dong.

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