Analysts expect the market's recovery p to expand this week as the group of stocks that have fallen sharply recently started to receive demand by absorbing the low-price stocks.

A healthy and transparent stock market would lay the foundation for sustainable development in the long term.

Stock investors must always be prepared to brace themselves for a volley of all sorts of rumors in the current environment prevailing in the stock exchanges.

The average daily trading value on Viet Nam’s stock market has reached more than VND30.84 trillion (US$1.34 billion) per session so far this year, up 15.9 per cent from last year’s figure and now the second largest in ASEAN, only after Thailand, according to the Ministry of Finance.

Shares gained on Friday, bolstered by the gains of large-cap stocks in the group of banking and real estate.

Shares dropped on Thursday, pressured by the slump of large-cap stocks that were hit strongly during the last minutes of the session by increased profit-taking.

The authorities are committed to supporting compliant companies to ensure the sustainable development of the stock market.