Nigeria: Trading Commence On Positive Note As Airtel Africa, Total Nigeria, 25 Others Soar

Nigeria: Trading Commence On Positive Note As Airtel Africa, Total Nigeria, 25 Others Soar

Darasimi Adebisi Transactions on the stock market of the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) yesterday commenced on a positive note as large and medium capitalised stocks appreciated. The market positive performance was driven by price appreciation in Airtel Africa Pl, Total Nigeria Plc, Unilever Nigeria Plc, PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc, and Guinness Nigeria Plc. The NGX […]

Equities lose momentum as capitalisation depreciates by N1bn

Equities lose momentum as capitalisation depreciates by N1bn

The Nigerian equities market sustained a sliding profile yesterday, occasioned by losses in many blue-chip stocks, especially, Cornerstone Insurance and Universal Insurance, causing market capitalisation to depreciate further by N1 billion. However, the volume of activities increased by 144.981 million as investors traded 355.935 million shares valued at N2.871 billion in 4241 deals against 210.954 […]

Buy-interest In GTCO, Oando, Others LiftStock Market by N11bn

Buy-interest In GTCO, Oando, Others LiftStock Market by N11bn

Darasimi Adebisi The equities market of the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) yesterday closed trading activities on a positive note, halting the three consecutive trading losses as investors’ investment went up by N11 billion. The positive performance was driven by investors’ buy-interest in Insurance, Oil & Gas, and Consumer Goods stocks listed on the NGX. Consequently, […]

Stock Market Decline by N82.83bn on Profit-taking in Dangote Cement, 17 others

Stock Market Decline by N82.83bn on Profit-taking in Dangote Cement, 17 others

Darasimi Adebisi Transactions on the Nigerian equities market yesterday closed the first trading session of the week on a negative note with a decline of N82.83billion as profit-taking dominated all the major sectors. The overall market capitalisation dropped to N20.490 trillion from N20.57trillion it opened for trading, while Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) All-Share Index (ASI) […]

Champion Breweries, Eterna others drag capitalisation by N83b

Champion Breweries, Eterna others drag capitalisation by N83b

Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX) The Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) reopened on a downward note yesterday, occasioned by losses incurred by most blue-chip stocks, especially by Champion Breweries and Eterna Plc, as market capitalisation depreciated by N83 billion. The All-share index slumped by 158.98 points to 39,326.67 from 39,485.65 posted on Friday. Similarly, market capitalisation of […]

Nigeria: Profit-Taking Persist As Stock Market Commences Week On Negative Note

Nigeria: Profit-Taking Persist As Stock Market Commences Week On Negative Note

The Nigerian equities market yesterday closed on a negative note, to halt the two consecutive days of positive sentiment trading by investors at the close of business the previous week. At the close of trading yesterday, the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) All-Share Index (ASI) declined by 8.12 basis points, representing a drop of 0.02 per […]