HÀ NỘI — Vietnamese shares yesterday ended down as investors increased selling assets to earn profits after blue chips posted big gains last week. Blue chips weighed on the major market yesterday as investors sought profits from those stocks’ recent gains. Other large-cap shares such as Bank for Investment and Development of Việt Nam (BID) also declined from Friday’s closing prices. The central bank yesterday raised its daily reference mid-point rate for local trading between the Vietnamese đồng and the US dollar by VNĐ19 to VNĐ21,875 for a dollar. Nearly 146.5 million shares worth VNĐ2.58 trillion were exchanged yesterday, a decrease of a quarter from last week’s daily trading value.

Source: Viet Nam News August 22, 2016 18:56 UTC