Stock Market: FCMB, Transcorp, Diamondbnk, Accessbank, Zenithbank Are Most Active In Volume

The Transcorp, the First City Merchant Bank (FCMB), Diamond. Bank, Access Bank and Zenith bank have emerged as the most active stocks by volume at the Stock Exchange transactions today, Friday, in Lagos.
At the transactions too, Hampion, Diamondbank, NEM, Redstarex and Intbrew emerged the highest price gainers on the chart, while CCNN, UPL, FO, Firstalum and Unity bank topped the losers.
A record from Capital Bancorp Plc, member of The Nigerian Stock Exchange today, Friday,
Friday, October 13, said that the Stock Exchange All-Share Index and the Market Capitalization increased by 0.32%, while the Year-to-Date return stood at 37.11%.
It said that the All Share Index closed at 36,848.17 against the previous close of 36,732.24 while Market Capitalization closed at ₦12.684 trillion against previous close of ₦12.644 trillion.
According to the record, the volume traded decreased by 64.02% from 443.675 million to 159.613 million, while the total value of stock traded decreased by 29.38% from ₦3.176 billion to ₦2.243 billion in 3,243 deals.
The Financial Services sector, it said, led the activity chart with 127.339 million shares exchanged for ₦1.211 billion. Conglomerates came next with 15.252 million shares traded for ₦0.026 billion, Consumer Goods, Services, Industrial Goods sectors followed in that order on the activity chart. [myad]