There were selloffs in heavyweight and mid-cap stocks such as BUA Cement, CAP, E-Tranzact International, International Breweries, Deap Capital Management and 20 others.
The Nigerian equities market posted a positive performance on Tuesday as investors added N1.287 trillion to their portfolios.
A total of 940.80 million shares worth N30.63 billion were traded across 28,358 transactions.
Market capitalisation rose by N318 billion or 0.49 per cent, closing at N65.817 trillion compared with Thursday’s figure of N65.499 trillion.
Accordingly, the market capitalisation opened at N59.245 trillion and lost N19 billion to close at N59.226 trillion.
Consequently, the Nigerian Exchange Ltd. (NGX) market capitalisation gained N6 billion, or 0.01 per cent, to close at N56.227 trillion, up from N56.221 trillion.
The All-Share Index shed 0.18 per cent to settle at 103,952.47, as against 104,136.35 recorded on Monday.
Investors gained N193 trillion or 0.35 per cent, making the market capitalisation, which opened at N55.890 trillion, to close at N56.083 trillion.
This is clearly a plan and an antiserum to the contagion of youth restiveness and delinquency.
Traded volume declined by 28 per cent with 176 million units traded and value traded fell 19 per cent to N2.2 billion.
