NGX All Share Index closes on a Negative note… ASI loses 20 Basis Point
The Nigerian Exchange Limited Bourse closed Negative. The benchmark All Share
Index (ASI) depreciated by 0.20% to close at 43,199.27. Market Capitalization
decreased by 45.25 billion to close at N22.54 trillion while the Year-to-Date (YtD)
returns settled at 7.27%.
What shaped today’s market direction?
Today’s market direction can be largely attributed to losses recorded in large and
mid-cap stocks in Industrial and Consumer Goods. Some of today’s market losers
include: ETERNA (-9.03%), NGXGROUP (-8.86%), WEMABANK (-4.71%), NB (-
2.86%), GTCO (-2.68%), TRANSCORP (-2.04%), FLOURMILL (-1.85%), STERLNBANK (-
1.32%), UBA (-1.20%), ACCESS (-1.10%), FCMB (-0.99%), ZENITHBANK (-0.83%), PZ
(-0.83%) and FIDSON (-0.80%) amongst others.
NASD Market
The NASD market closed Negative after today’s trading activities as the Unlisted
Securities Index (USI) decreased by 0.16% to close at 745.65. Consequently, Market
Capitalization closed at 616.04 billion. Market activity measured by aggregate
volume increased by 2,536.78% while value decreased by 2.69%. Investors traded a
total of 618,115 units of shares valued at N2.72 million in 5 deals.
please find here our Daily Financial Market update for today, November 19, 2021.