After dropping below the 1,400-point mark on Monday morning, the VN-Index made up ground in the afternoon to close down by six tenths of a percent while the first day of HOSE’s new trading system provided by FPT helped trading turnover jump to USD1.22bn. GAS (-4.8%) slumped to a three-week low and was the leading contributor to the day’s loss. vRE (-6.7%) tumbled to the daily trading floor while its parent company VIC (-1.1%) fell to a three-month low.