Wednesday’s advance rested on the performances of FBN Holdings, GTCO, UBA, Access and Champion Breweries, with a couple of mid-cap stocks providing further support.Nigerian stocks added 0.38 per cent or N80.4 billion on Wednesday to touch their peak in more than eight months ahead of the third quarter earnings season expected to begin any moment soon.
Equities are regaining their rhythm thanks to a stronger investment climate that has seen the market swing back to positive year-to-date return since last Tuesday. That optimism is built on an unabating rush for the shares of FBN Holdings, one of the four Nigerian banks Bloomberg ranked amongat the end of August. The stock has dominated trade in all trading sessions but two since October’s start and has returned 32.3 per cent between then and now.
Wednesday’s advance rested on the performances of FBN Holdings, GTCO, UBA, Access and Champion Breweries, with a couple of mid-cap stocks providing further support., often used to determine the level of investors’ sentiment towards trade, was positive, with 29 gainers emerging, compared to 14 laggards.
“We expect the positive performance to be sustained as investors seek out bargains and continued positioning for Q3 earnings season in the equity market,” said analysts at investment bank United Capital in a note issued on Monday and seenThe all-share index expanded 154.23 basis points to 41,051.19, while market capitalisation rose to N21.4 trillion at the end of trade.Transcorp Hotels led gainers, appreciating by 9.94 per cent to close at N5.97. Champion Breweries added 9.
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