The gains recorded in the stocks of Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc (25 per cent), Glaxo Smithkline Consumer Nigeria Plc (20.27 per cent) and Nigerian Breweries (16.44 per cent) drove the Nigerian Exchange Limited All-Share Index up by 0.22 per cent at the end of last week.
The All-Share Index rose to 65,198.08 from 65,056.39. Similarly, the year-to-date returns appreciated to 27.10 per cent.
All other indices finished higher except for NGX main board, NGX CG, NGX banking, NGX AFR bank value, NGX MERI growth, NGX MERI value and NGX oil and gas indices, which depreciated by 0.07 per cent, 0.06 per cent, 2.13 per cent, 1.85 per cent, 2.43 per cent, 0.78 per cent, and 0.68 per cent respectively. The NGX ASeM index closed flat.