HO CHI MINH CITY, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- VN-Index, the stock market index of Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City bourse in south Vietnam, closed at 850.33 points on Tuesday, up 1.24 points, or 0.15 percent, against the previous trading day's closing session.
About 584.720 million shares worth 20.466 trillion Vietnamese dong (VND) (911.01 million U.S. dollars) changed hands at the southern HCM City Stock Exchange. Prices of 137 stocks went up, 123 stocks fell down, while 60 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 846.03 points, up 1.3 points or 0.15 percent.
A total of 54.871 million shares worth 1.967 trillion VND (87.58 million U.S. dollars) were traded on Tuesday.
