HÀ NỘI — The VN-Index hit 1,000 points on Monday morning after positive news about GDP in Q3.

The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange rose 0.48 per cent to close at 1,002.65 points.

More than 87.3 million shares were traded on the southern bourse, worth VND2 trillion (US$85 million).

According to the General Statistics Office (GSO), local gross domestic product (GDP) climbed nearly 7 per cent in the first three quarters of 2019, reaching its highest level for the last nine years.

The GSO also announced that in the first nine months this year, there was a record number of newly-established enterprises, reaching nearly 102,300. They also had the highest level of capital in recent years, reaching an average of VNĐ12.6 billion each.

Large-caps also performed well, including Vietinbank (CTG), HDBank (HDB), Saigon Hanoi Bank (SHB), Vietcombank (VCB), VPBank (VPB), Bao Viet Holdings (BVH), Vinhomes (VHM), Vingroup (VIC) and Sabeco (SAB).

These stocks were among the large-caps that pushed the large-cap VN30-Index up 0.41 per cent to end at 928.58 points.

On the Ha Noi Stock Exchange, the HNX-Index rose 0.51 per cent to end at 105.30 points.

Nearly 12.6 million shares were traded on the exchange, worth VND182 billion.

The afternoon trading session starts at 1pm. — VNS