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Market activity in the Friday session on April 3 opened higher on demand from the Vingroup group and several large-cap names. However, the index faced rising profit-taking pressure. At the close, the VN-Index stood at 1,684.04 points, down 10.78 points, or 0.64%. Foreign trading was negative, with net selling around 1,528 billion dong. Brokerage houses’ proprietary trading desks posted a net buy of 167 billion dong. MWG and KBC registered net purchases of 74 billion and 32 billion dong, respectively. They were followed by VHM (29), MSN (23), GMD (12), VNM (11), TCH (8), VIC (8), MBB (7) and VPB (7) billion dong, all bought strongly by broker-dealer proprietary desks. On the selling side, the brokerage group recorded the largest net sale at SHB (-24), followed by NVL (-16), HCM (-10), TCB (-9) and HPG (-8) billion dong. Other notable net sellers included VCG (-8), FUEVFVND (-6), VRE (-5), ACB (-4) and E1VFVN30 (-3) billion dong.
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