Investors’ unwillingness to strategically position in Nigeria’s equities, particularly those expected to deliver impressive half-year (H1) result impacted negatively on the performance of the market in the trading week ended Friday, July 16.
The market decreased by 0.12 percent while investors lost about N25billion. This was caused by mixed trading sessions which saw more losses than gains on the Bourse in the review week.
Some investors continued to cherry-pick attractive counters in the week under review, while others chose to sell down their holdings for profit following previous gains.
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Except the Banking (+0.09percent) and Oil & Gas (+1.81percent) sectoral indices, other key sectoral indices of the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) closed the review week in red. NGX Consumer Goods Index (-0.85percent), NGX Industrial Index (-0.30percent), NGX Insurance (-1.07percent), NGX Pension (-0.33percent).
The record negative returns from Nigeria’s equities market seen year-to-date (YtD) stood at -5.77percent on Friday.
The Nigerian Exchange Limited All-Share Index (ASI) and Market Capitalisation which opened the review trading week at 37,994.19 points and N19.796 trillion respectively closed the week at 37,947.18 points and N19.771trillion.
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