The Nigerian inventory market continued its optimistic momentum on Wednesday, recording a achieve of ₦212 billion, marking the third consecutive bullish session of the week.
Market capitalisation rose by 0.28 per cent, closing at ₦76.970 trillion in comparison with ₦76.758 trillion on Tuesday.
Equally, the All-Share Index (ASI) elevated by 335.74 factors to settle at 121,989.67, up from the earlier 121,653.93.
The sustained uptrend was pushed by renewed investor curiosity in a number of shares together with Omatek, Crimson Star Categorical, RT Briscoe, Cileasing and 56 others.
The session ended with a powerful market breadth, as 60 shares recorded positive aspects whereas 21 closed within the crimson. Main the gainers’ chart was FG20203151, which appreciated by 12.10 per cent to shut at ₦108.20.
Omatek adopted, rising by 10 per cent to ₦1.21, whereas RT Briscoe and Crimson Star Categorical each superior by 10 per cent every to ₦3.85 and ₦11.11 respectively. Cileasing additionally gained 10 per cent, ending the session at ₦7.26.
Inventory market sustains bullish development with N677bn achieve
On the dropping facet, Legend Web declined by 8.05 per cent to shut at ₦8.00. Guinea Insurance coverage fell by 7.14 per cent to ₦1.04, whereas Eterna dropped by 4.65 per cent to ₦41.00. ETranzact misplaced 4.44 per cent, closing at ₦8.60, and Regalins slipped by 4.35 per cent to 88 kobo.
Regardless of the decline in buying and selling quantity from the earlier session, market exercise remained sturdy. A complete of 888.70 million shares valued at ₦15.61 billion had been exchanged in 24,303 offers, in comparison with Tuesday’s 1 billion shares value ₦19.48 billion traded in 24,770 offers.
Ja Paul Gold led buying and selling exercise with 137.34 million shares value ₦410.88 million. It was adopted by Entry Company, which recorded 83.04 million shares valued at ₦1.85 billion.
Different lively shares included AIICO Insurance coverage with 50 million shares value ₦95.3 million, Common Insurance coverage which traded 41.95 million shares valued at ₦30.52 million, and Ellah Lakes with 31.94 million shares value ₦330.97 million.
Market analysts stay cautiously optimistic, suggesting that the present bullish sentiment may persist if macroeconomic indicators stay beneficial and investor confidence continues to strengthen.
