frican equity market

Lagos, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — The Nigerian Equities market sustained its upward trend at the close of trading today as massive buying activity in some blue chip stocks few minutes to the close of trading lifted the Benchmark index 1.3% higher to close at 31, 217.7pts. As a result MTD return settled at 5.2% while YTD return eased to –9.9%. The major stocks that drove market performance were DANGOTE CEMENT (+4.7%), ACCESS (+2.6%)…