The Nigerian Exchange Limited All Share Index (NGX ASI) and the Market Capitalization increased by 0.98%, while the Year-to-Date return stood at 17.35%. The All Share Index closed at 50,126.41 against the previous close of 49,638.94 while Market Capitalization closed at ₦27.024 trillion against the previous close of ₦26.761 trillion. Volume traded decreased by 89.55% from 6405.732 million to 669.299 million, while the total value of stock traded decreased by 80.19% from ₦30.239 billion to ₦5.989 billion in 7,251 deals.
The Financial Services sector led the activity chart with 457.4 million shares exchanged for ₦3.306 billion. Conglomerates came next with 74.636 million shares traded for ₦0.093 billion, Consumer Goods, ICT, Oil And Gas sectors followed in that order on the activity chart.
UBN, TRANSCORP, AIICO, CHAMS and ACCESSCORP were the most active stocks by volume. WEMABANK, OKOMUOIL, NB, PRESCO and ETERNA emerged as the highest price gainers on the chart, while OANDO, TRANSEXPR, MANSARD, IKEJA HOTEL and CUTIX topped the losers’ chart.
