Hours after Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) emerged as the winner of the Nigerian presidential election, the stock market closed on a negative note on Wednesday, ending its positive form.
Prime Business Africa learnt that the Nigerian bourse’s market capitalisation closed down by 0.53 per cent, as sell-off dragged the equity’s total valuation down to N30.23 trillion from N30.40 trillion.
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The decline caused a loss of N162.14 billion in shareholders’ investment in the stock market.
The All-Share Index also shed 297.65 basis points from the 55,806.26 ASI recorded on Tuesday, to end trading at 55,508.61 ASI.
Although investors traded more shares of 565.82 million, worth N6.57 billion, in 4,340 deals on Wednesday, when compared to the 237.17 million shares, worth N2.50 billion, exchanged on Tuesday in 2,820 deals.
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