Recent property firm scandals have shaken the stock market, blowing tens of trillions of Vietnamese đồng and making investors feel the pain of loss when the market was in free fall.
With a solid financial foundation, bright prospects in the medium and long term, stocks of renewable energy companies are attracting more and more investors.
Shares rose strongly in the latter half of the afternoon session, lifting the VN-Index up 1.56 per cent to close Thursday at 1,465.30 points.
Shares plummeted on Tuesday despite the growth of some major blue chips as negative information continued to weigh on small and medium cap stocks.
Although market regulators detect many violations on the stock market, the penalties are often not proportionate to the profit, and so are of little deterrent to would-be rule-breakers.