Nigerian bourse down by 0.11% on Thursday due to profit taking

The Nigerian Stock Exchange All-Share Index (NSE ASI) and the Market Capitalization decreased by 0.11 per cent as a result of profit taking by investors on the Exchange even as the year-to-date return stood at 41.78 per cent.
The All-Share Index closed at 38,102.85 against the previous close of 38,144.02 while Market Capitalization closed at ₦13.133 trillion against previous close of ₦13.147 trillion.
Volume traded increased by 10.35% from 328.654 million to 362.671 million, while the total value of stock traded decreased by 8.28% from ₦6.102 billion to ₦5.597 billion in 4,055 deals.
The Financial Services sector led the activity chart with 291.779 million shares exchanged for ₦3.568 billion. Consumer Goods came next with 34.655 million shares traded for ₦1.748 billion, Conglomerates, Services, Oil And Gas sectors followed in that order on the activity chart.
Access, Zenithbank, FCMB, Diamondbnk and Guaranty were the most active stocks by volume. Unilever, Bocgas, Conoil, Guinness and Wemabank emerged the highest price gainers on the chart, while FO, Oando, NASCON, Morison and Dangsugar topped the losers chart.