Daily Financial Markets Report for December 21, 2021
NGX All Share Index closes on a Flat note… ASI loses 1 Basis Point
The Nigerian Exchange Limited Bourse closed Flat. The benchmark All Share Index
(ASI) depreciated by 0.01% to close at 42,388.57. Market Capitalization decreased
by 3.21 billion to close at N22.13 trillion while the Year-to-Date (YtD) returns settled
at 5.26%.
What shaped today’s market direction?
Today’s market direction can be largely attributed to losses recorded in large and
mid-cap stocks in Banking, Industrial and Consumer Goods. Some of today’s market
losers include: ETERNA (-9.91%), MRS (-9.85%), FTNCOCOA (-4.76%), UNITYBNK (-
4.26%), GLAXOSMITH (-3.23%), OANDO (-1.09%), ZENITHBANK (-0.80%), UBA (-
0.62%), ACCESS (-0.55%) and UACN (-0.53%) amongst others.
NASD Market
The NASD market closed Negative after today’s trading activities as the Unlisted
Securities Index (USI) decreased by 0.15% to close at 737.66. Consequently, Market
Capitalization closed at 609.44 billion. Market activity measured by aggregate
volume decreased by 36.88% while value decreased by 41.85%. Investors traded a
total of 10.12 million units of shares valued at N235.48 million in 10 deals.
please find here our Daily Financial Market update for today, December 21, 2021