Nigerian Exchange Limited said it ended trading on Tuesday, with the stock market gaining N10 billion for investors.
The equities market capitalisation appreciated by 0.03 per
cent to N29.909tn, the same percentage as the All Share Index, which rose to
54, 906.65 from 54, 886.04 recorded on Monday.
A total volume of 127.744m shares worth N1.586bn was
exchanged in 2,987 deals on Tuesday.
The market sentiments were flat as there were both 12
equities on the gainers’ and losers’ tables at the close of the day’s trading.
Leading the gainers’ table were Linkage Assurance, Wapic and
Champion, which gained 9.76 per cent, 7.89 per cent and 4.26 per cent to close
at N0.45, N0.41 and N4.90 respectively.
Atop the losers’ table was Ikeja Hotel with a 9.65
percentage loss to close trading at N1.03. Cadbury followed with a 5.83 per
cent loss in its share value to close at N11.30 and UPL suffered a 4.76 per
cent loss in its share price to close trading at N2.00.
On the Most Traded table of the NGX, the shares of Zenith
Bank led with 11,964,640 shares worth N298.835m exchanged in 255 deals. This
was followed by another financial organisation, GTCO, which had 10,472,370
million of its shares worth N 258.239m traded in 252.
MTN Nigeria was the third most traded stock on Tuesday with
421,619 of its shares valued at N98.138m.