Trading session on the Nigerian equities market continued on its positive trajectory on Thursday as the all- share index gained 1.25% to close at 105,530.74 points.
The market capitalisation added N793 billion to close at N64,351 trillion to boost the year to date return to 2.53%.
Investors sentiment was also in green as trading closed with 34 gainers compared to 25 losers.
Top gainers
MTN Nigeria, Honeywell Flour Mill and Universal Insurance Company were the top three gainers for the day with 10%, 9.89% and 9.86% price gain to close at N242.00k, N9.11k and 0.78k respectively.
Conversely, RT BRiscoe lost 10% to close at N2.34k, followed by Sunu Assurances Nigeria with 9.99% loss to close at N8.11k and The Initiates with 9.68% loss to close at N2.52k.
Thursday’s trading saw a total of 489.525 shares worth N13.1 billion traded in 13,010 transactions wherein Universal Insurance Company recorded the highest volume of 97.2 million traded shares followed by Aiico Insurance with 54.2 million traded shares.
Olusola Akintonde
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