John Okon
Trading on the floor of Nigerian Stock Exchange slow down on Friday June 30, 2017 after two days of gains as the All Share Index (ASI) and the Market Capitalization decreased by 0.46 percent, while the Year-to-Date return stood at 23.23 percent.
The All Share Index closed at 33,117.48 against the previous close of 33,269.84 while Market Capitalization closed at ₦11.452 trillion against previous close of ₦11.505 trillion.
Volume traded decreased by 21.26 percent from 439.229 million to 345.860 million, while the total value of stock traded decreased by 30.33 percent from ₦4.806 billion to ₦3.348 billion in 4,797 deals.
The Financial Services sector led the activity chart with 247.858 million shares exchanged for ₦1.428 billion. Consumer Goods came next with 30.191 million shares traded for ₦0.634 billion, Conglomerates, Oil And Gas, and Industrial Goods sectors followed in that order on the activity chart.
Diamond Bank, Access, Niger Insurance, Transcorp and United Bank for Africa were the most active stocks by volume. Eterna Oil, Champion Breweries, Ecobank Transnational Incorporation, Fidson and Jaizbank emerged the highest price gainers on the chart, while Unilever Nigeria Plc, May & Baker, Unity Bank, United Bank for Africa and Livestock topped the losers’ chart.
