App Of The Week: Nigerian Stock Exchange App (X-Mobile App)
The Nigerian Stock Exchange is Nigeria’s premier venue for buying and selling tradable securities, including stocks, bonds, and exchange-traded funds (ETF). Read more about App of the week But the NSE is more than just a ‘venue’. Thanks to technology, stockbrokers can trade stakes in 168 of Nigeria’s biggest companies, from wherever they are. […]
The NSE Is The World’s Best Performing Stock Market In 2020
The Nigerian Stock Exchange has been ranked the world’s best-performing stock market in the year 2020. The bourse placed first among 93 equity indexes tracked by Bloomberg in terms of growth recorded throughout the year. Read more about Finance In continuing its bullish run, the NSE’s all-share index crossed the 40,000 points mark on […]
How Your Business Can Benefit From The Nigerian Stock Exchange’s Growth Board
On 29 January 2020, the Nigerian Stock Exchange launched the Growth Board for high growth enterprises. The platform allows SMEs to list on the exchange, gain global exposure, and raise long term capital from investors- much like the large corporations whose shares are traded on the course. This initiative is aimed at supporting businesses […]
Did You Know? The Nigerian Stock Exchange was Founded in 1960
The Nigerian Stock Exchange has had a long, checkered life. The institution is represented in the consciousness of many people as an iconic multi-storey building located on Custom Street, Lagos Island. But while the high rise structure bearing its name has been a centre for stock trading since 1986, the NSE itself has existed for […]
Nigeria Today: Top 5 News Stories, Tuesday, Nov 15th 2016
1. With respect to the draft policy document which was released last week by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, indicating that parts of the stocks of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) would be listed for trading on the NSE or other exchanges after its restructuring and corporation, the federal government is yet to […]
Get Your Nigerian Stock Market Data with the Yochaa App
Getting hold of useful and timely information on the performance of your stocks just got easier. Yochaa, an iPhone and iPad application which gives its users greater control over their investments by letting them in on the price movements of stocks listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, has recently been launched. The app in effect helps […]
LeadTrader Offers Investors Secure Channel to Trade Shares
Lead Securities & Investments Limited, a broker-dealer subsidiary of LeadCapital Plc launched LeadTrader on Tuesday, a new online real time trading platform at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). LeadTrader offers investors a secure channel to buy and sell shares of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The online trading platform provides investors […]
Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) Set To Slash Transaction Costs By Over USD 6 millions
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has commenced the reduction of the cost of its Trade Alert service by about 1.24 billion naira from March 2014 via the scrapping of the current charge of 0.06% of every trade on the bourse and an introduction of an enhanced notification system, X-Alert which will be charged at a […]
Nigerian Stock Exchange Records $4.7 Billion in Foreign Investment
The Management of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has revealed that inflows and outflows of foreign portfolios in Nigeria’s stock market has hit N747 billion ($4.7 billion). The NSE submits that foreign transactions from January to March was N217.57 billion ($1.37 billion) or 42.7% of the total N510.1 billion ($3.22 billion) for the total transactions […]
SEC wins Most Innovative Capital Markets Regulator Award
Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has won the 2013 Africa Index Series Award for the “Most innovative Capital Markets Regulator” the second year in a row. Winning the award back – to – back, is due to several multifaceted reforms over a three-year period, according to the SEC. Factors considered by the judges to […]
By December, Aig-Imoukhuede Says He Will Retire As MD of Access Bank
“In 2002, we believed in the robustness of our plan to be among the top 10 banks in Nigeria in five years. That we have since achieved along with rewarding our investors with a return of over 4,000%. Today, we are among the first four banks in the country; we have the highest upside valuation than […]
GTBank Records N103 Billion in Profit, An Amazing First Among Nigerian Banks
Audited financial records of Guaranty Trust Bank – GTBank – submitted to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) showed its profit before tax to be N103 billion for the fiscal year ending in December 2012. The figure is 66% growth from N66.08 billion recorded in 2011. This, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is […]
Invitation To A Corporate Charity Banquet, For Cancer Prevention Programme
The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP-Nigeria) is seeking your partnership in a historic project that has the potential to save the lives of almost 100,000 Nigerians annually. The last Monday in February is designated as International Corporate Philanthropy Day (ICPD). The ICPD was first observed eight years ago in the United States of America, but […]
Foreign Investments in The Nigerian Stock Exchange was 56% at N733 billion in 2012
Stocks and transactions by foreign investors was 56%, in the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in 2012, making those by local investors to stand at 44%. The 56% input of foreign investors was valued at N733 billion, showing an improvement compared to 2011, and years of the recent economic recession. The CEO of NSE, Oscar Onyema, […]
$15million Venture Capital fund, underway to boost ICT entrepreneurship in Nigeria
The Minister of Communications, Omobola Johnson, at this year’s retreat for the Capital Market Committee, has said the federal government will launch a $15million venture capital fund to boost entrepreneurship in the Nigerian ICT sector. She made this known at the retreat themed, The Pivotal Role of Capital Market in the Transformation Agenda for the […]
Easykobo.com Survey Reveals Nigerian Financial Sector is in Hot Demand by Investors
Easykobo.com was created to provide investors in Nigeria with a finance website that features independent and accurate information on stock listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Bonds, Exchange Traded Funds, and Real Estate. In the middle of the financial crisis, Easykobo.com conducted a one year survey that began in April 2011 and ended on April […]