Business
NSE Transactions Record Positive Opening
The week’s transac
tions on the floor of the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) recorded a positive opening on Monday as major capital market indicators appreciated.
Market capitalisation appreciated N9 billion to close positively at 13.70 trillion compared to N13.69 trillion that opened the week’s record.
All-Share Index (ASI) also increased by 27.59 points to close higher at 41,502 points, as against 41,474.40 recorded by NSE on Friday.
Consequently, investors traded a total of 418.49 million shares valued at N11.54 Billion in 6,063 deals compared to the 671.26 million shares worth N11.87 billion traded in 5,869 deals by investors on Friday.
Dangote Cement led the losers table after losing N5.50 per share to close at N229.50 per share.
The second on the list was Guiness with a loss of N4.99 per share to close at N175 per share.
On the other hand, Forte Oil gained N21.91 per share to lead the gainers chart, closing at N671 per share.
Nestle gained N16.99 per share to close at N1.089.99 being the second on the gainers table while Seplat gained N12.05 to close at N671 per share.
It would be recalled that Seplat was listed on the floor of the Exchange on April 14th 2014.
Access Bank was the most petronised share accounting for 651.56 million shares valued at N65.123 million.
Access Bank performance made the financial service sector to remained the investors delight as FBN also sold 994.16 million shares, valued at N62.29 million to come second on the financial service sector list.