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Sell Pressure in Bellwethers Drags Equities Market Performance Sell pressure witnessed in bellwethers drags the equities segment of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) back from uptrend trajectory reported in the previous days. Specifically noted was sell-offs in NIGERIAN BREWERIES (-7.1%), GUARANTY (-2.6%), ZENITH (-1.6%) that pullback benchmark index lower by 26bps to 35,056.82 points. Consequently, investors lost ₦42.0bn as market capitalisation fell to ₦18.3 trillion while year to date return moderated to 30.6%. Then, tt was also observed that activity level waned as volume and value traded rose 19.7% and 61.4% to 369.0m units and ₦5.5bn respectively. Meanwhile, market data…

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