Markets

Nigerian equity market gains 0.1%

The Nigerian equity market opened the week on a positive note, driven by gains recorded by DANGCEM (+0.6%), GTCO (+0.8%), and FBNH (+1.2%).

The NGX All-Share Index rose 0.1% to 42,394.71 points, market capitalisation gained ₦21.6billion to ₦22.1trillion and year-to-date return improved to 5.3% from 5.2%.

Trading activity weakened as volume and value traded fell 58.4% and 29.7% respectively to 142.2million units and ₦2.5billion.

FBNH (20.2m units), GTCO (10.6m units), and SOVRENINS (10.1m units) led by volume while DANGCEM (₦726.3m), MTNN (₦357.2m), and GTCO (₦270.9m) led by value.

The Industrial Goods index led gainers, up 0.31% due to buying interest in DANGCEM (+0.6%), while the Banking and Consumer Goods indices gained 0.29% and 0.03& respectively due to bargain hunting in GTCO (+0.8%), FBNH (+1.2%), HONYFLOUR (+1.5%), and CADBURY (+1.2%).

On the other hand, the Insurance index lost the most, down 0.48% due to sell pressure on WAPIC (-1.9%) and CHIPLC (-6.9%).

Also, the Oil & Gas and AFR-ICT indices shed 0.41% and 0.30% respectively following losses in OANDO (-2.1%) and MTNN (-0.6%).

NEIMETH (+9.8%), UPDC (+9.4%), and ROYALEX (+8.7%) led 18 other gainers while CILEASING (-8.7%), CHIPLC (-6.9%), and WAPIC (-5.9%) led nine other 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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