The equity compartment of the regional stock market ends this first week of the year with its two main indices trending sharply downwards. According to Impaxis Securities, which provides the information in its weekly review of the stock market for the week of January 4 to 8, the BRVM composite and BRVM 10 indices recorded respective drops of 6.16% and 7.68% in weekly variation.

Impaxis Securities indicates that of the 46 stocks traded this month, 28 closed the first week down and 10 up. Also, the Management and Intermediation Company (Sgi) notes that eight values maintained a price level identical to that of December 31, 2020. Before pointing out that the activity indicators show a volume of 1,937,241.00 shares traded for a total value of 2,384,887,892.00 XOF.

In the process, the Sgi notes that the value BICI CI (BICC) accounts for 75.10% of the value of transactions for a volume of 289,805 securities traded. With the exception of the BRVM-Other sectors index (+7.14%) at 345.49 points, the six other indices recorded declines, including the BRVM-FINANCE which made the largest weekly sectoral drop with a discount of 7.12. %.

Nestlé CI (NTLC) recorded the best performance of the week, up 17.19%, says Impaxis. Which adds in the same wake as the shares SAFCA CI (SAFC), SETAO CI (STAC), BERNABE CI (BNBC) and UNIWAX CI (UNXC) complete the podium with respective gains of 14.29%; 7.14%; 5.00% and 4.50%.

“The biggest drop goes to the title NSIA BANQUE CI (NSBC) which lost -19.83% of its value and thus ended the week at 4,810 FCFA against a price of 6,000 FCFA on December 31, 2020”, notes the Sgi. Which finally informs that at the close of the market on Friday, January 8, the market capitalization stood at 4,098,442,309,236 XOF.

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