Nigeria: Stock Market Loses N51 Billion

2 August 2010

Lagos — Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) opened the week on a negative note as most blue chip companies suffered considerable loses.

The market capitalisation of equities dropped N55 billion or 0.8 per cent to close at N6.2 trillion while the All-Share index shed 209.79 or 0.8 to close at 25,634.39 as against 25,844 .18 as its opening index.

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