Continuing the recovery momentum after the sell-off session at the beginning of the week, the index representing the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange opened today in an excited state when a series of stocks traded above the reference. Before the lunch break, the index reversed direction and at times retreated close to the 1,205 point mark. Demand for disbursement at low prices appeared in the afternoon session, helping to narrow the decrease range, then turned green before closing with an increase of 5.6 points, up to nearly 1,216 points.

The number of stocks increasing overwhelmingly outnumbered the stocks decreasing in today's session, with 228 stocks and 182 stocks, respectively. The large-cap basket fell into a state of "green skin, red heart" when the general index increased by 0.77 points compared to the reference, to 1,253.58 points, but there were 14 stocks decreasing and only 10 stocks closing in green.

VHM became a special case in the VN30 basket in the mid-week session when it was the only code to hit the ceiling of VND37,200, closing with no sellers and leading the list of stocks that had the most positive impact on the VN-Index. This development occurred after the Board of Directors of Vinhomes issued a resolution to buy back a maximum of 370 million treasury shares, accounting for 8.5% of the total outstanding shares. While foreign investors disbursed strongly, foreign investors aggressively dumped VHM, reflected in the selling volume of up to 22.7 million shares, 6 times the buying volume.

In addition to VHM, the support for today's session also came from two Vingroup stocks, VIC and VRE. Specifically, VIC increased by 2.54% to VND42,350, VRE increased by 5.88% to VND18,000.

Fertilizer group also contributed significantly to today's increase. Two pillar codes DPM and DCM increased 3.4% to VND34,800 and 2% to VND36,200, respectively.

On the other hand, in the list of 10 stocks that restrained the market's growth, there were 6 representatives from the banking group . Specifically, TCB led the way when it decreased by 2.24% to 21,800 VND. Next, VPB decreased by 1.91% to 18,000 VND, BID decreased by 0.75% to 46,400 VND, CTG decreased by 1.15% to 30,200 VND, SSB decreased by 1.82% to 21,600 VND and TPB decreased by 1.73% to 17,050 VND.

The two pillars of the aviation group, HVN and VJC, are also on this list. Specifically, HVN lost 2.05% to VND21,450 and VJC lost 1.19% to VND99,300.

The trading volume for the entire session on August 7 reached approximately 624 million shares, down 65 million units compared to the previous session. The trading value accordingly decreased by VND2,164 billion, down to VND14,192 billion. This was the session with the lowest liquidity value in the past week.

Not only pioneering in terms of contribution points, VHM also ranked first in terms of transaction value in today's session with about 1,366 billion VND, equivalent to 36.7 million shares successfully transferred. The following positions in the liquidity ranking have a significant gap compared to the leading position. Specifically, VNM recorded a transaction value of more than 782 billion VND (equivalent to 10.7 million shares), TCB more than 431 billion VND (equivalent to 19.6 million shares) and HPG approximately 402 billion VND (equivalent to 15.4 million shares).

Foreign investors continued to extend their net selling streak to the third consecutive session. This group sold more than 93.6 million shares, equivalent to a transaction value of nearly VND2,807 billion, while only disbursing more than VND1,445 billion to buy about 40.6 million shares. The net selling value accordingly reached more than VND1,361 billion. This is the session with the largest value in the past 3 weeks.

In contrast to the strong buying status of domestic investors, foreign investors today aggressively sold VHM shares with a net value of approximately VND 720 billion. On the contrary, foreign investors actively disbursed into VNM with a net purchase value of more than VND 210 billion, followed by FPT with more than VND 36 billion, FRT with approximately VND 30 billion and GVR with about VND 21 billion.