Market up 0.59% as investors gain N52 billion

The Nigerian Stock Exchange All-Share Index (NSE ASI) and the Market Capitalization increased by 0.59 per cent, while the year-to-date return stood at -5.92 per cent as investors gained N52 billion.
The All Share Index closed at 25,284.56 against the previous close of 25,136.63 while Market Capitalization closed at ₦8.751 trillion against previous close of ₦8.699 trillion.
Volume traded increased by 68.21 per cent from 135.404 million to 227.757 million, while the total value of stock traded increased by 36.31 per cent from ₦0.681 billion to ₦0.928 billion in 2,543 deals.
The Financial Services sector led the activity chart with 188.854 million shares exchanged for ₦0.525 billion.
Conglomerates came next with 19.485 million shares traded for ₦0.041 billion, Oil And Gas, Consumer Goods, Industrial Goods sectors followed in that order on the activity chart.
Diamondbnk, FBNH, NEM, Fidelitybk and Transcorp were the most active stocks by volume. Airservice, Eterna, Seplat, Custodyins and Access emerged the highest price gainers on the chart, while NASCON, Wapco, ETI, Honyflour and NEM topped the losers chart.