Daily Market Summary: Market breadth closes at 0.31x
  • The bears overturned the gains recorded in the last session, moderating the YtD return on the NSEASI-0.84% to37%.
  • A total of 218.77 million (-1.95%) shares worth NGN2.23 billion (-47.32%), were exchanged in 4,109 (+11.81%) deals.
  • The bulls maintained their charge on the price of CAVERTON+4.98%, causing the ticker to lead the advancers’ chart.
  • Conversely, CILEASING-9.36% led other laggards in the session.
  • All NSE sector indices shed points to close lower, barring the NSEOILG5+0.02% index which witnessed a marginal uptick after gaining 0.02 points.

Why stocks are down

  • Based on our analysis of today’s trades, we attribute the negative close to the renewed selling pressures on counters, including large cap stocks like DANGCEM-0.61%, NESTLE-3.16% and NB-2.01%.
  • We expect to see the current negative sentiments manifest in more sessions this week, as investors remain cautious.

 

Insurance Sector: NEM declares final dividend of 10 kobo/ share

Weak positive sentiments were observed in the sector. The YtD return on the NSEINS10+0.01% index advanced  to 2.62% following the marginal points gained in the session.

NEM Insurance Plc. (NEM) declared a final dividend of NGN0.10 per share to be paid on June 20th, 2018.

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