The Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HOSE) has announced a decision on regulating trading time for restricted stocks on the bourse.

Stocks subject to trade under restriction on HOSE can only be traded in the afternoon session of the trading day by centralised order matching and put through trading methods.

The decision takes effect from the date of signing, which was May 25, and the amendment and supplementation of this decision was decided by the General Director of HOSE after being approved by the Chairman of HOSE.

On May 25, HOSE announced to list LCM shares of Lao Cai Mineral Exploitation & Processing JSC in restricted trading starting from May 25, due to late submission of the 2021 audited financial statements. Therefore, from May 26, LCM shares can only be traded in the afternoon session by the method of centralised order matching and put through trading.

Recently, HOSE announced the transfer of three stocks in the FLC family, which are FLC Group (FLC), FLC Faros Construction JSC (ROS) and HAI Agrochem JSC (HAI), from controlled to restricted trading list from June 1.

This means all three stocks can only be traded in the afternoon session of the trading day by centralised matching and put through trading methods.

On Monday morning, FLC shares dropped by 2.85 per cent to VND5,800 (US$0.25) at 10:56 local time, after falling for two consecutive sessions.

The price of FLC shares is down more than three times since Trinh Van Quyet, former chairman of FLC Group, was prosecuted and detained for manipulating the stock market and hiding information in securities activities at the end of March.

ROS shares also decreased 2.82 per cent, while HAI jumped 2 per cent.

On May 26, the trio stocks all hit floor prices. — VNS