{"id":71620,"date":"2018-12-20T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=71620"},"modified":"2018-12-20T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T18:00:13","slug":"nigerian-stock-exchange-moves-545-99-million-shares-worth-n4-08-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=71620","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Stock Exchange moves 545.99 million shares worth N4.08 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb\" width=\"696\" height=\"447\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Nigerian-Stock-Exchange-moves-545.99-million-shares-worth-N4.08-billion.jpg\" alt=\"Nigerian Stock Exchange NSE\" title=\"Nigerian Stock Exchange NSE\"><\/div>\n<p>The volume of shares traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday rose by 171.65 per cent with the indices appreciating by 0.32 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, a total of 545.99 million shares worth N4.08 billion was exchanged in 3, 224 deals.<\/p>\n<p>This was in contrast with a total of 200.99 million shares valued at N4.09 billion achieved in 3,035 deals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Union Diagnostic drove the activity chart, exchanging 274.17 million shares worth N65.81 million.<\/p>\n<p>Access Bank came second with an account of 61.87 million shares valued at N473.31 million, while Zenith Bank sold 37.29 million shares worth N838.48 million.<\/p>\n<p>Lafarge Africa traded 24.45 million shares valued at N288.32 million, while Guaranty Trust Bank exchanged 20.81 million shares worth N711.83 million.<\/p>\n<p>However, the crucial market indicators grew by 0.32 per cent following modest gain by some blue chips.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the All-Share Index which opened at 30,704.98 rose by 97.92 points or 0.32 per cent to close at 30,802.90.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the market capitalisation closed higher at N11. 251 trillion compared with N11. 215 trillion posted on Wednesday, an increase of N34 billion or 0.32 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Seplat led the gainers\u2019 table, gaining N37.80 to close at N593 per share.<\/p>\n<p>Dangote Cement followed with a gain of N4 to close at N190, while Conoil added 75k to close at N21 per share.<\/p>\n<p>Berger Paint grew by 70k to close at N7. 85, while Dangote Sugar advanced by 70k to close at N14 per share.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Nestle topped the losers\u2019 chart, dropping by N10 to close at N1, 460 per share.<\/p>\n<p>Total trailed with a loss of N3 to close at N192, while Cement Company of Northern Nigeria lost N1. 25 to close at N17.80 per share.<\/p>\n<p>Flour Mills was down by 85k to close at N21, while Ecobank depreciated by 75k to close at N14.25 per share.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The volume of shares traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday rose by 171.65 per cent with the indices appreciating by 0.32 per cent. Consequently, a total of 545.99 million shares worth N4.08 billion was exchanged in 3, 224 deals. This was in contrast with a total of 200.99 million shares valued at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1578,1579,9016,2414,2415,9017,2416,9018,9019,9020,2420,1587,1594,1588,243,1589,179,1590,9021,9022],"class_list":["post-71620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-access-bank","tag-all-share-index","tag-berger-paint","tag-cement-company","tag-cement-company-of-northern-nigeria","tag-conoil","tag-dangote-cement","tag-dangote-sugar","tag-ecobank","tag-flour-mills","tag-guaranty-trust-bank","tag-lafarge-africa","tag-markets","tag-nestle","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian-stock-exchange","tag-northern-nigeria","tag-nse","tag-seplat","tag-union-diagnostic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}