Nigeria’s market trading closed on a downward trend on Saturday with red points as the market capitalisation dropped by ₦159 billion to close at ₦28.562 trillion compared with ₦28.721 trillion achieved on Thursday.
In the same vein, the All-Share Index lost 295.53 points or 0.55 per cent to close at 52,979.96 points against 53,275.49 on Thursday. Hence, the Year-to-Date (YTD) performance of the index decreased to 24.03 per cent.
The downturn was impacted by losses recorded in large and medium capitalised stocks, amongst which are; Royal Exchange Assurance, Academy Press, amongst others. However, market closed with 28 gainers relative to 25 losers.
Neimeth Pharmaceuticals dominated the gainers chart in percentage terms appreciating by 10 per cent to close at ₦1.76 per share.
Conoil Plc came second with 9.88 per cent to close at ₦31.15, while McNichols Consolidated Plc rose by 9.79 per cent to close at N2.13 per share.
Cutix Plc rose by 9.77 per cent to close at N2.92, while NEM Insurance rose by 9.75 per cent to close at N4.39 per share.
Conversely, Learn Africa led the losers chart in percentage terms losing 10 per cent to close at N2.25 per share.
GSPEC Plc trailed with a loss of 9.79 per cent to close at N3.41 while Academy Press dipped 9.56 per cent to close at N1.23 per share.
Royal Exchange Assurance lost 9.52 per cent to close at N1.14 while FTNCocoa shed 8.57 per cent to close at 32k per share.
Transactions in the shares of Jaiz Bank topped the activity chart with 142.36 million shares valued at ₦126.87 million.
Chi Plc followed with 100.06 million shares worth ₦60.06 million, while Transcorp traded 21.34 million shares valued at ₦27.83 million.
Abbey Buildings sold 13.88 million shares worth ₦22.23 million, while United Bank for Africa(UBA) transacted 11.11 million shares worth ₦87.99 million.
