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Nigerian equity market declines for fourth consecutive session

Profit-taking in MTNN, UBA, and ETI dragged the Nigerian equity market dipped for the fourth consecutive time on Monday.

The NGX All-Share Index lowered by 0.1% to 43,230.34 points as the market capitalisation lost ₦11.8billion to close at ₦22.6trillion while YTD return weakened to 7.3%.

Market activity faltered as volume and value traded dipped 6.8% and 7.8% respectively to 293.4m units and ₦4.3bn.

FBNH (101.2m units), ACCESS (44.2m units), and FCMB (34.8m units) topped the volume chart while FBNH (₦1.2bn), MTNN (₦740.3m), and GTCO (₦507.4m) led by value.

The Industrial Goods index closed flat while the Oil & Gas and Insurance indices gained 8bps and 6bps respectively due to buying interest in OANDO (+0.4%) and MBENEFIT (+7.4%).

The Consumer Goods index rose 5bps on the back of bargain hunting in FLOURMIL (+2.0%). Conversely, UBA (-3.0%), ETI (-1.7%), and MTNN (-0.5%) pulled the Banking and AFR-ICT indices lower by 0.4% and 0.3% respectively.

CUTIX (+9.9%), LIVESTOCK (+9.5%), and MBENEFIT (+7.4%) led gainers while VERITASKAP (-8.7%), FTNCOCOA (-6.8%), and ROYALEX (-5.7%) led decliners.

Felix Oloyede

Felix Oloyede is a Mass Communication graduate with 19 years experience in journalism. He has worked with TheWeek Magazine; Mirror Newspapers; West Africa BusinessNews and BusinessHallmark Newspaper. Oloyede has covered different news beats ranging from crime; arts; politics; commerce and industries to finance and economy. He is an alumnus of Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa. He has also attended different trainings on Media Communication at the Lagos Business School. He is an alumnus of Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa. He has also attended different trainings on Media Communication at the Lagos Business School.

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