The Nigerian equities market closed bullish after mid-week trading on Wednesday as the all-share index appreciated by 0.28 percent to close at 121,989.67, being 335.74 points higher than Tuesday’s 121, 653.93 points.
Similarly, the market capitalisation rose by N212 billion to close at N76, 970 trillion.
The market sentiment also closed in the positive territory with 59 gainers and 21 decliners at the close of trading.
Top on the gainers list for the day were Nigerian Enamelware, Red Star Express and Ellah Lakes with 10 percent price appreciation and closing prices of N20.35k, N11.11k and N10.45k respectively.
Conversely, Legend Internet, Guinea Insurance and Eterna came out as the last three decliners having lost 8.05%, 7.14% and 4.65% to close at N8.00k, N1.04k and N41.00k each.
Japaul Gold and Ventures had the highest volume of traded shares for the day with 137 million shares , followed by Access Holdings with 83 million traded shares.
In all, a total of 888.703 million shares with market price value of N15.61 billion were traded in 24, 303 deals on the floor of the Exchange on Wednesday.
Hauwa Abu