MON SEPT 08 2025-theGBJournal| Nigerian stocks started the new trading week on positive note, as market focus turn on Q3 earnings and most Tier-1 banking H1 2025 releases, which analysts say could provide intermittent support to the NGX benchmark index.
The NGX All-Share Index rose higher by 0.3% to 139,394.75 points with market capitalization climbing back to N88. 19 trillion from N87.94 trillion as at Friday.
The Month-to-Date and Year-to-Date returns settled at -0.6% and +35.4%, respectively.
DANGSUGAR (+9.1%), ZENITHBANK (+1.3%), and NASCON (+7.6%) stocks gained substantially led by PZ (+10.0%) and UPL (+10.0%). IMG (-10.0%) and ENAMELWA (-10.0%) posted the most significant losses of the day.
The total volume of trade declined by 47.9% to 947.87 million units, valued at N17.97 billion, exchanged in 36,036 deals.
FCMB was the most traded stock by volume and value, at 460.95 million units and N4.74 billion, respectively.
Sectoral performance was mixed as the Insurance (+3.2%) and Consumer Goods (+0.6%) indices advanced, while the Banking (-0.5%) index closed lower.
The Industrial Goods and Oil & Gas indices remained unchanged.
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