About 40 per cent of HCM Stock Exchange stock gained points this morning, pushing the VN-Index up 0.8 per cent to close at 481.29 points.
Trading volume was 1 million shares lower than yesterday, with a total of 18 million shares transferred, valued at VND366 billion (US$17.4 million). Food producer Masan Group, one of ten largest capitalised share traders, hit a 5 per cent increase of VND123,000.
Amongst the ten large-cap share traders, only Sacombank (STB) shares ended on 1.6 per cent low while two other codes, including Eximbank (EIB) and software company FPT (FPT), remained unchanged.
Other blue chip companies gained between 0.3-2.3 per cent.
Saigon Securities Inc (SSI) saw the highest trade of 0.8 million shares, less than half of its transactions yesterday.
In Ha Noi, the HNX-Index dropped 0.4 per cent after a sharp rally to finish at 82.94 points yesterday.
Losers outnumbered winners by 146-108.
Around 25 million shares, valued at VND347 billion ($16.5 million), changed hands - 82 per cent of yesterday's volume and 89 per cent of yesterday's value.
Although VNDirect Securities Corporation (VND) was the most traded code with 2 million shares, it fell by 1.4 per cent.