Nigerian equity capital

Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa) — The Nigerian Bourse sustained bearish trend although at a rate lower than the previous session as the NSE ASI eased 0.4% further to settle at 32,739.11 points. Market capitalization shed N42.4bn and closed at N11.2tn. Today’s decline was driven majorly by losses in UNILEVER (-1.1%) and 7UP (-1.6%). Similarly, Market value and volume traded declined 62.6% and 42.3% to berth at N1.8bn and 186.7m units respectively. The Oil…

Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa) — The Nigerian bourse reverted a 2-day gain as the benchmark index tumbled 1.8% to berth at 32,863.43 points today. Intraday market movement indicated that the NSE ASI slumped from 33300pts at mid-day to 32800pt before adjusting upwards at close of trade. We link the sharp decline of the index to sell down in DANGOTE CEMENT (-4.4%), STANBIC (-4.0%) and NIGERIAN BREWERIES (-1.0%) in today’s trading. As a result,…

Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa) — The Nigerian Bourse took a bullish leap as last-minute rally in DANGOTE CEMENT (+3.5%), NIGERIAN BREWERIES (+1.9%) and UBN (+4.7%) fired up the Index. Intraday market movement indicated a broadly bearish session before a last minute jump saved the day. Hence, NSE ASI went up 0.6% to berth at 33,456.83 points and YtD loss moderated to 3.5%. We believe this last-minute rally was driven by mid-year portfolio reassessment…

Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa) — Performance in the Nigerian Bourse today proved bullish as the NSE ASI opened 1.2% up to peg at 33,249.19 points. This was fostered by gains in DANGOTE CEMENT (+2.4%) ZENITH (+2.3%) and FORTE OIL (+5.0%). Market capitalization also improved by N135.1bn to berth N11.4tn compared to the previous session. Market activity on the other hand declined as value and volume traded fell 51.0% and 10.0% to N4.4bn and…

Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa) — The Nigerian Equities market took another bearish slide as the NSE All Share Index (ASI) dipped 0.4% today. Performance was largely on account of sell pressure on ZENITHBANK (-2.0%),UNITYBNK (-2.8%) and FORTE OIL (-3.2%). Market capitalization also shed N49.6bn thereby shrinking to N11.3tn. Equally, Market activity weakened as volume and value traded declined 1.2% and 15.1% respectively after 306.5m units of shares worth N5.2bn were traded. The Insurance…

Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa) — At the sound of the closing bell today, the Nigerian Stock Exchange All Share Index (ASI) dipped 0.3%. This was on the back of decline in highly capitalized stocks especially in the banking sector such as ETI (-2.2%), STANBIC (-2.1%) and FBN HOLDINGS (-1.7%). Market capitalization shed N33.1bn to settle at N11.4tn. On the contrary, market activity improved as volume and value traded advanced 49.1% and 173.4% to…

Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa) — Nigerian Equities Market closed flat today as the benchmark index -All Share Index (ASI) held steady at 33,381.45 pts after easing 1bps. Similarly, market capitalization shed N1.1bn firming at N11.4tn. Price appreciation in Banking and Oil and Gas heavy weights such as ZENITH (+2.1%) ETI (+2.0%), FORTE OIL (+5.0%) and SEPLAT (+5.0%) were countered by losses in Industrial and Consumer Goods majors such as DANGOTE CEMENT (-0.8%) and…