Nigerian stocks ended today’s trading on a positive as the All Share Index (ASI) rose marginally by 0.02% to close at 23,981.09.
Although Sterling Bank ended up as the highest gainer with a 8.19% rise in its share price, today wasn’t too good for banking stocks as a total of five banks (Fidelity, ETI, FBNH, UBN, and Diamond bank) ended up on the losers section.
Here is a snapshot of trading today;
ASI: 23,981.09
DEALS: 3,020
VOLUME: 169,504,504.00
VALUE: 1,518,248,412,.91
CAP: 8,247,544,525,459.43
Top 5 Gainers for the day;
STERLINGBANK opened at N1.71 and closed at N1.85 gaining N0.14(8.19%)
UNILEVER opened at N31.84 and closed at N33.43 gaining N1.59(4.99%)
MOBIL opened at N145.01 and closed at N152 gaining N6.99(4.82%)
AIICO opened at N0.85 and closed at N0.89 gaining N0.04(4.71%)
CAVERTON opened at N1.77 and closed at N1.85 gaining N0.08(4.52%)
Top 5 Losers for the day;
UACN opened at N20.89 and closed at N19.86 losing N1.03(-4.93%)
FIDELITYBK opened at N1.26 and closed at N1.20 losing N0.06(-4.76%)
ETI opened at N15.70 and closed at N15.00 losing N0.70(-4.76%)
FBNH opened at N3.92 and closed at N3.78 losing N0.14(-3.57%)
TRANSCORP opened at N1.15 and closed at N1.11 losing N0.04(-3.48%)
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