Traders’ sustained curiosity in Zenith Financial institution, FBN Holdings, Dangote Sugar and WAPCO, amongst different superior equities, on Wednesday, additional lifted the inventory market by N167 billion.
Particularly, the Nigerian Trade Ltd. (NGX) market capitalisation, added N167 billion or 0.26 per cent to a gap of N59.367 trillion, to shut at N59.534 trillion.
The All-Share Index additionally superior by 0.26 per cent or 255.2 factors to settle at 98,227.50, towards 97,972.33 recorded on Tuesday.
Consequently, the Yr-To-Date (YTD) return rose to 31.37 per cent.
Market breadth additionally closed positively with 39 gainers and 28 losers.
On the gainers’ desk, Austin Laz & Firm and Tantalizers led by 10 per cent every to shut at N2.20 and 99k per share respectively.
WAPCO gained 9.98 per cent to shut at N54.65, Honeywell Flour superior by 9.95 per cent to shut at N4.53, Eunisell additionally elevated by 9.94 per cent to shut at N15.93 per share.
Conversely, Northern Nigeria Flour Mill (NNFM) and RT Briscoe led the losers’ desk by 10 per cent every to shut at N33.75 and N2.61 per share respectively.
Multiverse declined by 9.43 per cent to shut at N7.20, Daar Communications misplaced 7.46 per cent to shut at 62k, whereas McNichols shed 5.41 per cent to shut at N1.40 per share.
On market actions, commerce turnover settled increased relative to the earlier session, with the worth of transactions up by 31.58 per cent.
A complete of 370.52 million shares valued at N8.45 billion have been exchanged in 10,026 offers, towards 333.95 million shares valued at N6.42 billion traded in 9,187 offers posted beforehand.
Once more, Entry Company led the exercise chart in quantity with 22.99 million shares, whereas Seplat led the chart in worth of offers price N1.37 billion.
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