Asia's Top Stock Market of 2018 Set to Be World's Worst in April

  • There is a lot of foreign selling today: Viet Capital’s Tosto
  • Declines have wiped out $15 billion from nation’s stock market

The Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange.

Photographer: Kevin German
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Asia’s top stock market this year is about to become the world’s worst performer this month.

Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh Stock Index slid 3.2 percent at the close Thursday as trading resumed after a holiday on Wednesday, with foreign investors unwinding their positions in emerging markets and rushing to exit a market that reached a record about two weeks ago.