Share Prices Of GTB, Others Boost All Share Index To 28,140.41 Points 

Trade at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) ended on a bullish note as the rise in the share price of Guarantee Trust Bank Plc, Zenith Bank Plc. and Access Bank Plc. led to the rise of the All Share Index (ASI) to 28,140.41 points at the end of the trading session.

The data was disclosed by the Exchange Thursday, which shows Market capitalization had an upward shift by N174.4 to N14.5 trillion, which is a recovery from Wednesday loss of N174.4 billion.

Activity level weakened as the volume of securities traded fell by 9.4% to 317.2 million units and value of decreased by 19.9% to end at N3.4 billion.

The most active stock by volume in the trading session were the stock of FBN Holdings Plc which traded 57.3 million units, First City Monument Bank (FCMB) 43.2 million units and Zenith 34.3 million units.

However, Nigerian Breweries led Thursday trade by value as it ended at the tune of  N1.2 billion, while Zenith Bank Plc. followed with N705.5 million and FBNH ended at N345.6 million.

On share price appreciation, Access Bank share price appreciated by 3.1%, Zenith followed with 4.1% rise and GTB by 3.15.

On Sector performance, banking and insurance topped gainers chart as GTB led +3.1%, while ZENITH gained +4.1% and LAWUNION +9.8%.

Similarly, the Oil & Gas sector declined in gains with OANDO trailing at +0.6%.

The industrial goods index led the sectoral loss due to price depreciation in in the stock of BUACEMENT (-3.3%).

AFR-ICT and Consumer Goods indices declined with NASCON declining by 3.7%, INTBREW (-1.1%) and MTNN loosing -1.2%, thereby dragging the sectors down to 68bps and 12bps respectively.