Trading activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) remained positive on Friday, with Total Oil leading the gainers’ table for the day.
The crucial market indices appreciated further by 1.41 per cent, following gains by some blue chips.
Specifically, the market capitalisation increased by N161 billion or 1.4 per cent to close at ₦11.719 trillion against ₦11.558 trillion on Thursday.
Also, the All-Share Index rose by 437.03 points or 1.41 per cent to close at 31,426.63 compared with 30,989.60 posted on Thursday.
Total Oil led the gainers’ table during the day with N19.5 to close at ₦214.5 per share.
Dangote Cement followed with a gain of ₦2 to close at ₦194, while ETI and GTB added 9K each to close at ₦15 and per share respectively.
Zen Bank improved by 85k to close at ₦23 per share.
On the other hand, PZ Cussons topped the losers’ chart, shedding 55k to close at ₦1.3 per share.
Unilever trailed with a loss of 45k to close at ₦36.55, while NPFMCRFBK declined by 12k to close at ₦1.46 per share.
The volume of shares traded rose by 55.51 per cent, while value of shares transacted increased by 0.03 per cent.
NAN reports that investors traded a total of 417.172 million shares valued at 3.144 billion in 3970 deals.
This was against the 268.255 million shares worth ₦3.145 billion exchanged in 3,756 deals on Thursday.
Diamond Bank was the most active stock, exchanging 89.76 million shares worth ₦204.82 million.
FBNH followed with 64.62 million shares valued at ₦492.49 million, while Access Bank traded 60.51 million shares worth ₦387.28 million.
Transcorp sold 36.620 million shares valued at ₦47.68 million, while Zenith exchanged 35.71 million shares worth ₦805.99 million.