At the close of today’s trading session on the Nigerian Exchange Ltd (NGX), 756.42Million shares were traded in 13,551deals, amounting to a market value of N24.692Billion. Compared with the previous trading day (Tuesday January 7), today’s data shows a 32% decrease in volume, a 69% increase in value and a 18% decrease in the number of deals. The Current equities market capitalization of the Nigerian Exchange Ltd is NGN63.56trillion, while the All-Share Index (ASI) closed at 104,230.73Basis points, increase 831.91Basis Points, representing a 0.80% increase, and a YTD increase of 1.27% as against the previous trading day’s close of 103,051.36Basis points.
Cumulatively, 126 NGX equities participated in trading, ending with 27 gainers and 28 losers. MTN Nigeria led the gainers with 10% share price appreciation closing at NGN 220.00 per share, followed by Transcorp Nigeria (+10%), Honeywell Flour Mill (+9.95%) and Aiico Insurance (+9.94%). On the losing side, Sunu Assurances Nigeria came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of 9.99% at NGN 9.01 per share, followed by Universal Insurance Company (-8.97%), Secure Electronic Technology (-8.11%) and Consolidated Hallmark Holdings (-5.82%). Tantalizers recorded the highest volume of 82.4 million traded shares, followed by Universal Insurance Company (56.6m), Aiico Insurance (54.3m) and Chams (33.1m).
