The All-Share Index of listed equities trading on the floor of the Nigeria Exchange Group Limited, NGX, dropped further by 0.3 percent at resumption of business this week amid renewed bargain hunting and profit-taking by investors.
This represents a 138.64 basis points to close at 43,818.12 on Monday from 43,956.76 recorded on Friday.
Consequently, the market capitalisation decreased by N75 billion to close at N23.866 trillion compared to N23.942 trillion of the previous day.
At the end of trading session, a total volume of 187.094 million units of shares exchanged hands in 3,326 deals.
The market sentiment when measured by market breath was flat with 13 gainers and 13 losers.
FTN Cocoa Processors led the gainers list with a 9.68 percent gain on its share price to close at N0.34k followed by CHIPLC with a 6.90 percent gain on its share price to close at N0.62k. Then MANSARD had a 5.88 percent price gain to close at N1.62k.
On the flipside, JOHNHOLT led the losers list with a 9.88 percent loss on its share price to close at N0.73k followed by SCOA which had a 9.71 percent to close at N1.58k and Presitge lost 7.69 percent to close at N0.36k.
