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Stock Market rally continues as investors gain N23.58bn on Wednesday
Nigerian Stocks at the third trading session of the week again close on a positive note, as All Share Index advanced on Wednesday by 0.11% to 40,341.05 index points driven by price appreciation in Mobil, BOCGAS, and SEPLAT.
MOBIL led the gainers table at 9.43% to close at N249.5 followed by FLOURMILL up 6.93% to close at N29. BOCGAS at 9.92% to close at N12.52.
Other top gainers include, 3 SEPLAT up 0.08% to close at N496.5 while GUINNESS went up 1.61% to close at N18.9.
In all, market breadth came in with 32 gainers and 16 losers.
The Year-to-date return and market capitalization settled at 0.17%, and N21.09 trillion respectively.
A total volume of 468.1 million units of shares, valued at N6.96 billion exchanged hands in 5,697 deals.
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ZenithBank stocks was the most traded shares by volume and value at 45.7 million units and N1.18 billion respectively.
The sectorial performance was broadly bullish as the Insurance & Energy indexes lead the gainer’s chart by +4.12 & 1.74%.
The Consumer goods, Industrial & Banking sectors trailed distantly, appreciating by 0.11% and 0.08% apiece.
Top losers after the day’s trading include INTBREW down 3.82% to close at N6.8 GLAXOSMITH down 2.78% to close at N7 LIVESTOCK down 9.74% to close at N1.76 – AFRIPRUD down 2.59% to close at N6.77 and CUTIX down 5.00% to close at N2.09
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