Mid-cap and small-cap stocks boosted the local market on Wednesday while the market sentiment was weighed down by the US presidential election debate.
Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden battled fiercely over Trump's leadership on the coronavirus pandemic, the economy and taxes in a fiery first debate on Tuesday marked by Trump's repeated interruptions.
Billions of banking stocks are about to flood the market with banks planning to pay stock dividends and issue new shares to raise their charter capital.
Vietnamese shares wiped out early gains to collapse on Tuesday, dragged by banking, consumer and energy sectors on stronger profit taking.