The stock market opened for four days this week as the Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Friday 29th March 2013 a public holiday to mark Good Friday.
A turnover of 1.612 billion shares worth of N13.542 billion in 23,021 deals were transacted this week on the floor of The Exchange in contrast to a total of 1.561 billion shares valued at N16.636 billion that exchanged hands last week in 25,255 deals. At the close of trading activities for the week, the Financial Services sector accounted for 1.347 billion shares valued at N8.138 billion exchanged hands by investors in 15,076 deals. The Consumer Goods sector (measured by turnover volume) followed in the activity chart with 76.335 million shares valued at N3.518 billion traded in 3,337deals.
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