This is the topic of the stock talk show organized by Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper at 10am tomorrow morning, August 6.

The stock market has been on a four-week losing streak since leaving the 1,300-point zone. Notably, the VN-Index lost less than 100 points, but a series of stocks fell sharply by 20-30, even 40-50%, causing concern for investors.

In the first trading session of the week on August 5, VN-Index lost nearly 50 points, falling back to 1,188 points. In the 24 years since its official operation, the stock market has reached the 1,200 point mark many times but could not go further. Until now, this mark still "sticks" to investors.

From the first two listed stocks in 2000, the market now has more than 700 stocks and fund certificates listed on HoSE and HNX, along with more than 800 stocks registered for trading on UPCoM.

The total market capitalization of enterprises on the three exchanges HoSE, HNX and UPCoM is up to 6.9 million billion VND (about 270 billion USD), equivalent to 67% of GDP in 2023. Of which, there are dozens of enterprises with capitalization of billions of USD...

In terms of transaction scale, transaction value, and number of shares of listed companies, there have been breakthroughs over the years, but the VN-Index score alone is a "sadness" for investors.

One of the weaknesses of the market is that individual investors account for too large a proportion while foreign and institutional investors account for a low proportion, making the market unstable, with sharp increases and sharp decreases, lacking the stability of other markets.

At this time, along with solutions to help the market develop healthily and transparently, and soon upgrade to an emerging market, what solutions are needed to attract and develop institutional investors to make Vietnamese securities more sustainable?

Talkshow of Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper with the topic "Why is the stock market still struggling at the 1,200 point area?" will be shared with experts and securities companies.