The market negative performance was driven by price depreciation in large and medium capitalised stocks.
The performance was impacted by gains recorded in medium and large capitalised stocks.
The negative sentiment was driven by investors’ profit-taking sentiments in the banking and consumer goods sectors.
The negative performance was driven by market watchers’ sell-off sentiment in the banking sector.
The market capitalisation, which opened trading at N20.273 trillion, rose by N17 billion to close at N20.290 trillion.
The market capitalisation lost N3 billion to close at N20.275 trillion in contrast with N20.278 trillion recorded on Friday.
Market capitalisation inched lower by N2 billion or 0.01 per cent to close at N20.424 trillion from N20.426 trillion posted on Wednesday.
The downturn was buoyed by price depreciation in the banking and oil and gas sectors.
Similarly, the market capitalisation rose by two billion naira.
In spite of the drop in market indicators, the total volume of trades traded increased by 36.16 per cent.
