The VN-Index rose for a fifth straight day, eking out a slight gain of a tenth of a percent on Thursday. The leading gainers and decliners in today's trading were very similar to yesterday's as VIC (+4.7%), VNM (+1.4%) and VJC (+0.9%) extended recent hot streaks to fresh record highs while ROS (-6.8%) and SAB (-1.2%) were the top laggards. The major difference was, unlike yesterday, banks dropped, led by VCB (-1.2%), BID (-1.3%), CTG (-1.0%), MBB (-1.3%) and VPB (-1.2%).