WED NOV 12 2025-theGBJournal| The Nigerian equities market extended its bearish momentum on Tuesday, as the NGX All Share Index (ASI) saw its biggest single day decline since January 2020.
The market’s benchmark index, the All-Share Index closed down by 5.01% to close at 141,327.30 points, dragged by losses in DANGCEM (-10.0%), MTNN (-10.0%) and BUACEMENT (-10.0%).
Simultaneously, the year-to-date (YTD) return eased to 37.31% from 44.55% in the previous session, while the market capitalisation dipped by 4.91% to settle at N89.88 trillion.
Market activity however was bullish as the transaction volume and value increased significantly by 80.03% and 158.87% respectively.
FIRSTHOLDCO (-1.90%) led the volume chart with 68.27 million units traded, while GEREGU (0.00%) led the value chart with N4.42 billion worth of trades.
Market breadth closed negative at 0.10x, indicating more decliners than gainers.
NCR (+9.82%) led the four gainers, while ACADEMY (-10.00%) led the sixty-six decliners.
Meanwhile Aat the NASD, sentiments was hugely negative, as the NASD Securities Index (NSI) and market capitalisation decreased by 0.25% and 0.25% respectively, closing at 3,625.09 points and N2.16 trillion, respectively.
The market activity also declined, with transaction volume and value rising by 98.27% and 96.97% respectively.
SDAIRLIQ (-10.00%) topped the market decliners in today’s session.
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