Despite a strong start at the beginning of Monday’s trading session, the VN-Index slide throughout the remainder of the day to close down by less than a tenth of a percent as foreign investors net sold USD54.1mn of shares, marking their 12th consecutive net-selling session. Energy players GAS (+2.7%) and POW (+5.2%) were the day’s top two contributing gainers. Most banks fell, including VCB (-1.2%), ACB (-2.0%), TCB (-0.9%) and VPB (-1.1%).