Trading activities at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Tuesday closed on negative note as market indicators dropped marginally by 0.19 per cent.
The All-Share Index declined by 58.2 basis points or 0.19 per cent to close at 30, 311.77 against 30,369.97 posted on Monday.
The market capitalisation, which opened with N10.437 trillion, lost N20 billion or 0.19 per cent to close at N10.417 trillion due to price losses by some blue chip equities.
Guinness led the losers’ chart with a loss of N5.32 to close at N162.45 per share.
PZ Cussons came second with N1.34 to close at N26.65, while Forte Oil lost N1.11 to close at N227.79 per share.
Stanbic IBTC dipped by 79k to close at N22.11, while GTBank dropped 60k to close at N23.50 per share.
Conversely, Unilever topped the gainers’ chart, gaining N1.80 to close at N45.80 per share.
Cadbury garnered N1.02 to close at N99, while Lafarge Wapco rose by N1 to close at N22.93 per share.
Flour Mills increased by 60k to close at N22.60, while Caverton improved by 29k to close at N3.37 per share.
Afrinsure emerged investors’ delight, accounting for 200 million shares worth N100 million in three deals.
Access Bank exchanged 22.09 million shares valued at N112.02 million in 267 deals, while ETI sold 20.07 million shares worth N380.39 million in 69 deals.
In all, a total of 413.88 million shares worth N2.36 billion were traded by investors in 4,331 deals.
This was against 254.70 million shares valued at N3.84 billion traded in 3,798 deals on Monday.
