Activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange closed on a negative on Friday as stocks of some highly capitalised companies recorded price losses, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The All-share Index at the end of Friday’s trading depreciated by 140.94 basis points or 0.38 per cent to close at 37,145.64 points against the 37,286.50 points recorded on Thursday.
Market capitalisation of all listed securities dropped by N45 billion to close at N11.763 trillion compared with N11.808 trillion transacted on Thursday.
At the end of transactions, Guinness led the price losers, dropping by N22 to close at N230 per share.
Julius Berger’s share price dipped by N3.76 to close at N79 per share, while Cadbury lost N1.03 to close at N51.17 per share.
Guaranty Trust Bank depreciated by 45k to close N24.70 per share, while Dangote Sugar fell by 33k to close at N11.67 for a unit of its shares.
On the gainers chart, Total led with N7 to close at N159 per share.
Nestle followed with a gain of N5.02 to close at N955.02 per share, while CAP share price grew by N3.48 to close at N46.95.
MRS share price appreciated by N3.28 to close at N36.14, while Okomu Oil rose with N2 to close at N44.50 per share.
NAN reports that investors bought a total of 273.29 million shares worth N2.5 billion traded in 4,842 deals.
Total shares bought dipped compared with the 422.66 million shares worth N2.9 billion traded in 5,709 deals on Thursday.
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