The Nigerian Exchange Limited on Tuesday closed on a negative note with a loss of N5 billion due to sustained sell pressure.
NewsBeatng reports that the market performance indices, NGX All Share Index, depreciated by 0.02%. In the same vein, Market Capitalization declined by N5 billion to close at N23.8 trillion.
Meanwhile, market breadth closed positive with 15 gainers against 13 losers.
Year-to-date, the stock market has advanced by 1,091.81 basis points. The Year-to-Date returns settled at 2.55% at the end of tuesday’s trading session.
On a sectoral level, 1 of the 5 major indices of the Nigerian Exchange closed negative with NGX Oil and Gas index down by 0.88% respectively while the NGX banking and Insurance indices grew by 0.26% and 0.91% respectively.
Similarly, NGX Consumer goods and Industrial remained unchanged.
NGX ASI: 43,808.25 points
Previous ASI: 43,818.12 points
% Day Change: 0.02%
% Y-t-D: 2.55%
Market Cap (N): 23,861 trillion
Volume: 103.4 million
Value (N): 1.18 billion
Deals: 3,045
NGX Top ASI gainers
LEARNAFRICA up +10.00% to close at N1.50
CWG up +10.00% to close at N0.80
CAVERTON up + 8.75% to close at N0.80
PRESTIGE up +8.33% to close at N0.36
JAPAULGOLD up +7.41% to close at N0.27
NGX Top ASI losers
WAPCO down – 9.66% to close at N 22.25
ROYALEX down – 9.41% to close at N 0.85
CORNERST down – 9.09% to close at N 0.44
UPDCREIT down – 8.93% to close at N 2.80
FTNCOCOA down – 8.82% to close at N 0.34
Top 3 by Volume
FBNH– 11,385,022
TRANSCORP –11,307,300
FIDELITYBK – 10,337,325
Top 3 by Value
BUAFOODS- N221,587,086
AIRTELAFRI -N131,002,482
FBNH- N124,224,500
