Market rises by 1.51% as investors gain N168bn

The Nigerian Stock Exchange All Share Index (NSE ASI) and the Market Capitalization increased by 1.51 per cent while the year-to-date return stood at 21.63 per cent.
The-All –Share Index closed at 32,686.72 against the previous close of 32,200.38 while Market Capitalization closed at ₦11.300 trillion against previous close of ₦11.132 trillion.
Volume traded decreased by 33.00 per cent from 744.992 million to 499.108 million, while the total value of stock traded decreased by 37.50 per cent from ₦ 6.519 billion to ₦4.074 billion in 6,424 deals.
The Financial Services sector led the activity chart with 404.976 million shares exchanged for ₦2.616 billion. Consumer Goods came next with 37.628 million shares traded for ₦0.587 billion, Conglomerates, Oil and Gas, Services sectors followed in that order on the activity chart.
Fbnh, Uba, Diamondbnk, Fidelitybk and Access were the most active stocks by volume. Intbrew, Fo, Dangsugar, Maybaker and Unitybnk emerged the highest price gainers on the chart, while Fbnh, Fcmb, Ubn, Uac-Prop and Thomaswy topped the losers chart