In today's morning trading, it looked as though the VN-Index was poised to match yesterday's solid gains. Indeed, just before the lunch break, the market peaked at 631.96, which had it closed there, would have been an 11-month high. However, the index steadily faded in the afternoon, closing at the low of the session, up 1.54 points, or 0.3%, to 628.00. VNM (+1.5%), which had closed unchanged for the previous six sessions, came out of hibernation to make the biggest contribution to the index.