VCSC Daily - VN-Index finishes nearly unchanged - Banks

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Market wrap: VN-Index finishes nearly unchanged

The VN-Index finished nearly unchanged on Thursday, gaining a mere one hundredth of a percent as investors focused on select banking and securities tickers due to the potential for increased inflows to the Vietnamese stock market at the beginning of 2022.

* Securities brokerages SSI (+5.9%), VND (+4.8%), HCM (+4.4%) and VCI (+2.9%) made significant gains.

* Banks were mixed. VPB (+1.9%), STB (+3.4%) and MSB (+2.3%) increased. Conversely, VCB (-1.4%), CTG (-1.0%) and TPB (-1.4%) were among the day’s top contributing decliners.

* POW (-3.1%) has dropped 5.4% over the past three days.