Markets
Nigerian equity market up 0.02%

The Nigerian Exchange appreciated by 0.02% to close at 54,520.2 points, as the Market Capitalisation gained by N8 billion to close at N29.696 trillion.
TTrippleG led 16 other gainers including RTBriscoe, Japaul Gold, LivingTrust, VeritaSkap, Honyflour and Geregu (BLS).
The losers’ table was topped by Courtville, followed by CWG, the NGX Group, Wapic, Fidelity Bank and Transcorp at the end of Thursday’s trading session.
In all, 125,860,855 million shares estimated at N3.602 billion were traded in 2,670 deals.
Zenith Bank was the most active stock with 8,441,601 million of its shares worth N214,56 million traded in 180 deals. GTCO’s shares of 19,173,469 million units, priced at N481.722 million, exchanged hands in 175 transactions. MTN Nigeria had 318,974 shares valued at N77.379 million traded in 151 deals. WAPCO traded 4,158,679 million shares estimated at 108.96 million in 149 transactions.