Sugar Refinery

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) reopened trading on Wednesday after the public holidays to mark the Eid-el-Fitr celebration with a marginal growth of 0.07 per cent. Speficially, the All-Share Index rose by 16.48 points or 0.07 per cent to close at 25,221.23 compared with 25,204.75 achieved on Friday. Similarly, the market capitalisation which opened at N13.135 trillion garnered N9 billion or 0.07 per cent to close at N13.144 trillion. The uptrend was impacted by gains recorded in large and medium capitalised stocks, amongst which are; Nigerian Breweries, Dangote Cement, Stanbic IBTC Holdings, Guinness Nigeria and Dangote Sugar Refinery. Market breadth remained positive with 32 gainers compared with 11 losers. A breakdown of the price movement chart indicates that Nigerian Breweries led t...