Investors Trade N5.72bn Shares, Stock Market Cap Hit N30.38trn

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On Thursday, the market capitalisation of the Nigerian stock exchange closed at N30.38 trillion, with the All-Share Index settling at 55,808.25 ASI.

Investors exchanged N5.72 billion in 7,725 deals to trade 390.21 billion shares on Thursday.

Conoil’s share appreciated by N5.75kobo to rise from N57.95kobo to N63.70kobo per share.
Sterling Bank grew by N0.20kobo, up from N2.05 to N2.25kobo per share.
Eterna ended trading with N8.45kobo from N7.70kobo per share, rising by N0.75kobo.
Cornerstone gained 8.97 per cent to end trading at N0.85kobo, having opened with N0.78kobo per share.
Mutual Benefit stock was up by 8.33 per cent, closing at N0.39kobo from N0.36kobo per share.

FTN Cocoa depreciated by 9.88 per cent, dwindling from N0.81kobo to N0.73kobo per share.
Champion also fell by N0.40kobo to end trading at N3.76kobo, after opening at N4.16kobo per share.
McNichols followed the same path, losing 9.21 per cent after trading hours, to sell at N0.69kobo from N0.76kobo per share.
Chams reported a decline of 8.16 per cent from the previous day’s share price of N0.49kobo to end trading at N0.45kobo per share.
Fidson’s share depreciated to N9.80kobo from N10.53kobo, after losing N0.73kobo during trading hours.

Access Corporation reported 51.31 million shares, valued at N623.81 million, were traded on its floor.
UBA recorded 46.09 million shares valued at N453.13 million.
FTN Cocoa saw investors trade 37.31 million of its shares valued at N29.67 million.
Zenith Bank recorded 37.15 million shares exchanged on its floor, worth N1.09 billion.
GTCO reported 34.35 million shares, valued at N993.22 million, exchanged investors’ hands.