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Vietnam's southern stock market ends down

Xinhua, May 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

VN-Index, the stock market index of Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City bourse in south Vietnam, closed at 544.41 points on Tuesday, down 7.26 points, or 1.32 percent, against the previous trading day's closing.

About 79.641 million shares worth 1.388 trillion Vietnamese dong (VND) (64.07 million U.S. dollars) changed hands at the southern HCM City Stock Exchange. Prices of 64 stocks went up, 147 stocks fell down, while 67 stocks remained unchanged.

VN30-Index, the new benchmark index for the southern bourse, which tracks the 30 leading stocks by both market capitalization and liquidity, closed at 571 points, down 8.41 points, or 1.45 percent.

A total of 33.445 million shares worth 630.01 billion VND (29. 06 million U.S. dollars) were traded on Tuesday. Endi