Vietnamese shares were sluggish in the past week with the benchmark VN-Index suffering the first loss after four gaining weeks. Firstly, the margin lending balance in Việt Nam’s stock market is at a high level, and some of the brokerage companies have reached their margin lending limits, he said. An average of 208.3 million shares were traded in each session of the last trading week, worth nearly VNĐ3.8 trillion (US$168.4 million). The figures were down 6.8 per cent in trading volume and 5.7 per cent in trading value from the previous trading week. Foreign investment in the stock market has reached a total of VNĐ14.5 trillion after nine months.

Source: Viet Nam News October 02, 2017 03:11 UTC