For the fourth time this week, Nigeria’s equities market on Thursday closed in the green zone, rising by 0.35 percent. This week, the market has risen by 3.01 percent. Also, this month, the market has risen by 3.24 percent, pushing the year’s return to 6.13 percent.
At the close of trading, the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) All-Share Index (ASI) and equities market capitalisation moved further high from preceding day’s lows of 109,000.19 points and N68.507 trillion respectively to 109,231.96 points and N68.652 trillion.
In 16,704 deals, investors traded 554,069,040 shares worth N14.347billion. Fidelity Bank, Access Holdings, Tantalizers, GTCO and First Holdo were actively traded stocks.