After continuously hitting historical peaks, the stock market started to correct itself last week. Even though demand rose quickly after the VN-Index fell to 1,340 point-level, selling forces still dominated leaving analysts from securities firms expecting the market to slide to lower levels this week.

Retail stocks are becoming attractive assets to many investors after a sell-off on Tuesday despite the market benchmark VN-Index falling.

Shares lost for two days in a row, ending the week in the red, while retail shares bucked the trend thanks to growth of Mobile World Investment Group.

Shares were mixed on Friday morning as the market was still under strong selling pressure.

The total number of securities accounts in the country is estimated at over 3.39 million, or 3.5% of the population.

The market ended lower yesterday as selling pressure dominated some attractive stocks in banking, real estate and material sectors.