VN mid-caps, small-caps outpace main index. The VN-Index rose 0.57%, or 3 points, to 573.65 points as sector constituents moved in different directions. Among Vietnam's largest oil and gas tickers, GAS (+2.5%) made hefty gains while PVD (-1.2%) saw significant losses. The same situation also occurred in the banking sector, where only sector leader VCB (+0.4%) was able to close in the green and other tickers such as BID (-0.6%) and CTG (-1.2%) were all down.