After spending the majority of Wednesday’s session in positive territory, the VN-Index dropped in the final 20 minutes of trading to close down one tenth of a percent. Trading value on HOSE surged to USD242.2mn. Most banks were down with VCB (-2.6%), TCB (-1.7%), CTG (-0.7%), MBB (-1.2%), VPB (-1.0%) and STB (-1.3%) all among the top 10 contributing laggards. BID (+1.2%) was a notable exception to this trend. HVN (-1.5%) has fallen almost 5% in the last four sessions.