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Nigerian equity market extends gain by 0.7%

The uptrend in the Nigerian equity market continued on Tuesday, on the back of appreciation in MTNN, ZENITH, and GTCO.
The NGX-ASI rose 0.7% to 47,205.03 points and the market capitalisation grew ₦181.7bn to ₦25.5tn, while YTD return advanced to 10.5% from 9.7%.
Trading activity rose as volume and value traded increased 9.3% and 19.8% respectively to 245.4m units and ₦4.6bn.
The banking sector led the advancers, rising by 2.8% due to buying interest in ZENITH (+5.8%) and FCMB (+7.4%).

The Consumer Goods and Oil & Gas indices were also up 1.9% and 1.7% respectively driven by gains in NB (+7.8%), DANGSUGAR (+7.7%), and SEPLAT (+2.6%).

Also, buying interest in MTNN (+1.3%), WAPCO (+1.1%), and CAP (+10.0%) pulled the AFR-ICT and Industrial Goods indices up by 0.6% and 0.1% respectively.

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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