Capital Market

NSE Opens Week Bearish, Extends Losses to Fifth Straight-Day, ASI Dips 0.14%

By InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday opened the week on bearish note as the all-share index (ASI) dipped 0.14 percent to close at 28,813.51 points, while market capitalisation declined by N14.24 billion to N9.90 trillion. “Today’s negative performance extended the Month-to-Date loss to 2.65 percent and […]

Nigerian Stocks End Week in Red, Post 1.54% Loss

By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday ended a two-day trading session as all-share index (ASI) and market capitalisation dipped 1.54 percent to close the week at  28,854.98 basis points and N9.910 trillion respectively. “Similarly, all other Indices finished lower during the week, with the […]

‘Securities lending, borrowing’ll be fully operational this year’

8/7/2016/Punch Stanley Opara The lending and borrowing of securities for custodians is to become fully operational this year, according to reports by the Central Securities Clearing System Plc. The service was designed to aid market participants to go short by selling securities that they do not have by lending from […]