Just five of the top VN30 shares gained value on Wednesday morning, pushing the VN-Index down 0.4 per cent to 1,004.33 points, its second falling session this week after a short recovery on Tuesday.

Vietnamese shares advanced on Tuesday as investors began seeking opportunities in the market’s current short-term decline.

Vietnamese shares gained slightly on Tuesday morning, driven by listed financial and food and beverage companies.

Vietnamese shares slipped on Monday as investors continued seeking profits from previous gains made by large-caps.

Although the Unlisted Public Company Market (UPCoM) attracts less attention from investors than the Ho Chi Minh and Ha Noi stock exchanges, the market still offers potential opportunities for market players who thoroughly understand it.

Shares sank on Monday morning on the two national stock exchanges as investor sentiment was dampened by slumps of major blue chips.

The top 60 biggest companies by market capitalisation and trading liquidity on the two local stock exchanges saw combined post-tax profit gain of 22.5 per cent to VND46.75 trillion (US$2 billion) in the third quarter of 2019.

Shares look set to fluctuate next week due to a lack of supportive information and cautious sentiment triggered by a mixture of news from the world market, brokerages have predicted.

Low sales and a lack of extraordinary income from asset sales have brought listed automobile firms' stocks down and pushed investors to other targets.

The VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange declined for a third straight session on Friday, weighed down by slumping heavyweight shares such as Vinamilk, Vietcombank and BIDV.