VNI fell by 1% to 601.04 as losses in large cap financial stocks such as VCB (-2.2%), BID (-2.9%) and CTG (-2.3%) outweighed gains in VNM (+1.0%), HNG (+1.4%) and NT2 (+2.7%). Similarly, the HNX slid by 0.9% to 83.79 pts with ACB (-1.9%), PVI (-3.5%) and PVS (-0.8%) the main draggers to the Northern index.