MON JULY 07 2025-theGBJournal| The Nigerian equities market extended its happy hours Monday as the NGX All-Share Index (ASI) edged up by 0.25% to close at 121.295.33 points.
In the same vein, the market capitalisation gained N192.85 billion to N76.53 trillion.
The Month-to-Date and Year-to-Date returns also settled higher at +1.1% and +17.9%, respectively.
Gains in GTCO (+1.56%), FIRSTHOLDCO (+9.80%), and CADBURY (+10.00%) offset losses in ACCESSCORP (-2.00%), TRANSCORP (-4.55%), and WEMABANK (-1.82%).
Market activity revealed a mixed trade turnover compared to the previous session, with transaction volume down 10.80% while transaction value advanced by 31.23%.
Investors exchanged a total of 824.10 million units valued at N14.44 billion across 24,042 deals.
UNIVINSURE (+7.65%) topped the volume chart with 71.92m units traded, while NB (+1.04%) led the value chart with transactions worth N2.39 billion.
Market breadth closed positive with a 2.30-to-1 ratio, as advancers outnumbered decliners. CADBURY (+10.0%) led the gainers table, while SUNASSUR (-10.00%) topped the list of laggards.
The NASD OTC Securities Index (NSI) declined by 0.34% today, to close at 3,387.1 points. Similarly, market capitalisation declined by the same margin, settling at N1.98 trillion.
Trading activity was positive, as volume traded rose by 1599.71% to 10,752,772 units, while the total transaction value advanced by 137.90% to N42.976 million. A total of 30 deals were executed during the session.
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