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Afrinvest Nigeria’s Daily Stock Market Report: 2 February 2015

Recent Gains in Oil Prices Excite Equities… NSE ASI up 108bps The Nigerian Bourse started the week on a positive note as All Share Index – the benchmark index of Nigerian equity market rebounded, gaining 1.1%. Market Capitalization also added N106.7bn to close at N10.0tn. The uptrend today was majorly driven by the appreciation in bellwether stocks — Nigerian Breweries (4.9%), Dangote Cement (1.1%) and GTBank (2.3%). Despite the significant pull-back in the market, most…

FBN Securities Nigerian Market Wrap: 29 January 2015

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The bears had the upper hand in the market today with increased foreign selling amid growing political and economic uncertainties. Financials were the worst hit as offers outstripped demand 3:1 in most names. Zenith(-4.99%) and Diamond(-4.81%) took a beating and both closed on net offer, the former having over 2mln shares at the day’s low. Diamond closed at N3.76, 35% off its 2014 rights price of N5.80. Guaranty dipped -4.31% intraday but subsequent value buying…

FBN Securities Nigerian Market Wrap: 28 January 2015

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Trading in the local bourse continued on a mixed note today as flashes of optimistic bargain hunting was checked by the broader macro concerns. The market was muted in the first half as buying interest was low while offers piled around previous close in most names, turnover at mid-session was a about 1bln, 47% of that was from block trades of 1.7mln Dangcem ($1.37m) and 1.3mln 7up shares ($1m) local seller and offshore buyer. Subsequent…

Afrinvest Nigeria’s Daily Stock Market Report: 28 January 2015

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Marginal Gains Linger… NSE ASI advances 16bps Investors on the floor of the Nigerian bourse continued to trade cautiously as the NSE All Share Index (ASI) advanced 16bps to close at 29,907.66 points, bringing the WTD performance to a positive 0.5%. Market capitalization followed the same trend, adding N16.2bn to close at N10.0trn. At the close of today’s trade, investors staked a total of N3.7bn on 242.4m units of shares in 3,897 deals, depressing market…

Nigeria now most-watched frontier market

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Nigeria has solidified its title as the most-watched frontier market in the latest WSJ Frontiers/FSG Frontier Market Sentiment Index as an increasing proportion of multinationals put the country on their watch list for potential future investment. Nigeria has held the top spot since the index was launched in June 2014 despite having endured a rough ride for the past few months. Followed by Vietnam, Kenya, and Argentina, which all rank among the top 20, Nigeria…

Nigeria: CBN Maintain or Tighten Policy?

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We expect policy to be held steady later today as the 100bp tightening in the MPR to 13% late-November 2014 is still yet to transmit its full effect throughout the economy. It is also unlikely for a tightening of policy prior to the election. However, there are various ways that the MPC could respond to current pressures, for example: • Tightening monetary policy further by around 100bp. • Raising Cash Reserve Ratio on Private Sector…

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