HO CHI MINH City: Trading on Vietnam’s main stock exchange, home to the nation’s benchmark VNIndex, was halted for the day after a malfunction. The technical issue occurred during the last 30 minutes of Monday’s trading, when orders couldn’t be matched, the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange said in a statement. The Hanoi Stock Exchange, the Unlisted Public Company Market and Vietnam’s derivatives market are open as usual, the regulator said in a separate statement. Dung said investors should be “cautious” when trading derivatives because there will be no prices for the underlying stocks of the VN30 Index. The nation started stock-index derivatives trading in August.

Source: Bangkok Post January 23, 2018 03:00 UTC