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In January 2017, transactions of foreign investors decreased compared to the previous month.

On the stock exchange, the HNX Index had 11 point-gaining sessions and 6 point-losing sessions, with a total increase of 4.34 points (+ 5.42%) compared to the end of the previous month, stopping at 84.46 points at the time of closing the trading session on 25 January 2017.

The indicators in the HNX index increased, with the Finance index increasing by 5.32 points (+ 4.79%), reaching 116.35 points; the construction index increased by 2.82 points (+ 2.27%), reaching 127.2 points; and the industry index fell by 6.01 points (-3.13%), reaching 186.14 points.

The HNX30TRI index increased by 9.55 points (+ 5.45%), reaching 184.82 points, the HNX Large Cap index increased by 9.18 points (+ 8.24%), reaching 120.65 points; and the HNX Mid / Small Cap fell by 1.93 points (-1.28%), reaching 148.91 points.

The liquidity of the stock market decreased compared to the previous month. Accordingly, total transaction volume was 432,639 million shares, equivalent to 4,504 billion vnd. On average, the transaction volume reached 25.44 million shares per session, equivalent to 264.96 billion vnd per session (a decrease of 38.61% in volume and a decrease of 36.99% in value compared to the previous month). The transaction of the 10 stocks with the largest market capitalization reached 105.79 million shares, equivalent to 24.45% of total market transaction.

Notably, in January 2017, transactions of foreign investors decreased compared to the previous month, with a total of 23.94 million shares traded, equivalent to a value of 369.667 billion vnd, with 17.33 million shares bought and 6.6 million shares sold.

According to the HNX, on UPCoM, there was an addition of newly registered 38 codes of stock exchange in January 2017 and 1 unsubscribed code of stock exchange. To 25 January 2017, there were 454 enterprises registered on UPCoM.

The UPCoM-Index had 13 point-gaining sessions and 4 point-losing sessions with a total increase of 0.86 points (+ 1.6%), reaching 54.68 points at the time of closing session at the end of the month. There were 119.7 million shares which were traded, equivalent to a transaction value of 2,254 billion vnd. On average, the transaction volume reached 7.04 million shares per session and the transaction value reached 132.59 billion per session (a decrease of 36.42% in volume and 32.8% in value compared to the previous month).

Regarding the trading situation of the HNX 30, there were 17 sessions with 10 point-gaining sessions and 7 point-losing sessions, stopping at 151.4 points at the time of closing the trading session on 25 January 2017, with an increase of 7.8 points (+ 5.5%) compared to the time of closing the trading session at the end of December 2016.

On average, the transaction volume of the HNX 30 was 11.6 million shares per session, equivalent to a transaction value of approximately 134.9 billion vnd per session, accounting for 45.7% of transaction volume and 52.9% of average transaction value of the whole market. At the end of closing the trading session on 25 January 2017, the capitalization value of the HNX 30 accounted for 50.9% of total market capitalization.

Regarding the auction of shares, in January 2017, the HNX held a divestment auction of the Vietnam Debt Trading Company Limited at Cosevco Tile Joint Stock Company and 2 auctions of IPO shares of MTV 185 Company Limited and HAPROSIMEX Company Limited.

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The total volume of shares for auction in 3 sessions of auction was more than 8.9 million shares. Investors ordered a total amount of more than 4 million shares, equivalent to 45% of the volume offered. Accordingly, there were more than 4 million shares hit the market (equivalent to 45% of the total volume offered), equivalent to more than 40 billion vnd paid to the State budget. In the divestment auction of Vietnam Debt Trading Company Limited at Cosevco Tile Joint Stock Company, there was 100% of the shares offered for sale, equivalent to more than 37 billion vnd.