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Avoid Being Drawn into Social Media-Fuelled Stock Hysteria: deVere CEO

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Avoid Being Drawn into Social Media-Fuelled Stock Hysteria: deVere CEO

Investors need to exercise the utmost caution before joining social media-led stock frenzies, warned the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organisations.

The warning from Nigel Green, chief executive and founder of deVere Group, comes as a group of at-home retail investors on Reddit have been promoting a number of stocks, with the aim of squeezing short sellers that have been betting against them.

GameStop, AMC, Pearson, Blackberry, Nokia and Cineworld are amongst the targets.

GameStop’s stock has surged nearly 700% in the past two weeks, while Blackberry is up 185% and on track for its best month ever.

The Reddit community r/wallstreetbees, which has 2.8 million members, is full of users urging each other to keep pushing the stocks higher.

Mr Green says: “I would urge investors to exercise the utmost caution before joining social media-led stock frenzies of this nature.  The valuations can be expected to be extremely wild – in both directions – and there’s a legitimate risk that investors could get burned.”

He continues: “This is being pitched as a battle-play of Wall Street or The Square Mile versus The Little Guy.  However, this is not typically the way reasoned, savvy investors should strategise to create and build their portfolios in order to reach their financial goals.

“This is a dangerous game to play for retail investors.”

Earlier this week, the deVere CEO noted: “In today’s landscape, it is not the macro-bubble of which investors should be wary.

“Any potential bursting of bubbles is likely to be within specific stocks, so unlikely to rock the global financial markets as has happened previously – but individual investors could still be caught off-guard.

“Micro-bubble spotting, and diversification across asset class, sector, region and even currency, should become a priority for investors right now.”

Nigel Green concludes: “As ever, investors should work alongside a good fund manager to seek out those stocks most likely to generate and top-up their wealth over the long-term.

“I would avoid being drawn into the hysteria driven by social media.”

CEO/Founder Investors King Ltd, a foreign exchange research analyst, contributing author on New York-based Talk Markets and Investing.com, with over a decade experience in the global financial markets.

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Dangote Sugar Board of Directors Approves 2020 Audited Financial Statement

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February 25, 2021

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Board of Directors Has Approved 2020 Audited Financial Statement for Dangote Sugar

The board of directors, Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc, has approved the Financial Statement for the period ended December 31, 2020.

The company disclosed in a statement filed with the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Thursday.

According to the statement signed by Mrs. Temitope Hassan FCIS, Company Secretary/Legal Adviser, Dangote Sugar, the board also recommended the declaration of dividends subject to the approval of shareholders at the Company’s Annual General Meeting to be held in due course.

It stated that “the Closed Period remains in force until 24 hours after the filing of the Financial Statements.

“No insider of the Company, including its Directors, Employees, Advisers and Consultants and their connected persons may deal directly or indirectly in the Shares of the Company during the Closed Period.”

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Refinitiv Partners With Nairobi Stock Exchange to Enhance Transparency of Secondary Fixed Income Market in Kenya

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Refinitiv Partners With Nairobi Stock Exchange to Enhance Transparency of Secondary Fixed Income Market in Kenya

 KENYA – Refinitiv partnered with the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) to enhance Fixed Income (FI) price discovery and raise market transparency in Kenya.

As part of the partnership, the NSE will roll out Refinitiv Fixed Income Callouts in Kenya, an automated workflow that facilitates negotiations and agreements of secondary Fixed Income (FI) bond trading among banks, brokerage firms, and real-time integration with the Central Securities Depository (CSD).

The primary FI market has been steadily growing in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as governments explore better access to financing. According to the 2020 Refinitiv investment banking review, SSA debt issuance totalled US$19.0 billion in 2020. With the increased accessibility to technology, electronic trading has emerged as a significant channel to the growth of a secondary FI market across the continent.

The deployment of Refinitiv’s solution will enable the NSE to benefit from an automated Over the Counter (OTC) FI workflow that is integrated in real time with both, the Securities Exchange and the CSD in Kenya.

Geoffrey Odundo, Chief Executive Officer, Nairobi Securities Exchange, said: “We are excited to be working with Refinitiv and the fixed income community to drive innovations in our market and adopt global best practices. Refinitiv’s trading workflow combined with NSE’s post-trade system will help us improve trade life cycle, reduce operational risks and encourage price discovery and transparency in the market.”

Nadim Najjar, Managing Director, Middle East and Africa, Refinitiv, said, “We are proud to partner with the NSE and the local regulators to foster transparency, latency and liquidity. Refinitiv Fixed Income Callouts will allow market participants to benefit from real-time price discovery across bonds and bills. The deployment will also facilitate collaboration among Kenyan banks, brokerage firms, and the CSD.”

“The Kenyan financial markets have seen significant growth over the past few years. This partnership reinforces our commitment to enable the local regulators and financial community with advanced technologies and workflows to achieve efficiency and growth. The adoption of Refinitiv Fixed Income Callouts will create an effective market infrastructure, build greater long-term confidence amongst investors, and ensure strong governance processes,” he added.

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Stock Market Gains as AIICO, Zenith Bank, Flour Mills, Others Close in the Green

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February 24, 2021

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Stock Market Gains as AIICO, Zenith Bank, Flour Mills, Others Close in the Green

Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) closed in the green as stocks of AIICO, Livestock, Flour Mills, Zenith Bank and others closed strong.

Investors traded 337.955 million shares valued at N3.845 billion in 5,232 transactions during the trading hours of Tuesday.

The market value of listed equities grew by N5 billion from N21.009 trillion on Monday to N21.014 trillion on Tuesday while the NSE All-Share Index gained 0.03 percent from 40,154.09 index points recorded on Monday to 40,164.86 index points.

FBNH led the most trade stocks with 64,588,247 shares valued at N471,801,052.30 as shown below.

Top Trades

Symbols Volume Value
FBNH 64,588,247 N471,801,052.30
ZENITHBANK 52,673,009 N1,341,206,505.80
TRANSCORP 41,987,880 N38,118,654.63
UCAP 20,968,270 N128,224,244.12
UBA 18,146,830 N153,239,636.30

Top Losers

Symbols Last Close Current Change %Change
SUNUASSUR N0.81 N0.73 -0.08 -9.88%
LASACO N1.52 N1.37 -0.15 -9.87%
AFRIPRUD N6.6 N5.95 -0.65 -9.85%
ABCTRANS N0.35 N0.32 -0.03 -8.57%
UPL N1.29 N1.18 -0.11 -8.53%

Top Gainers

Symbols Last Close Current Change %Change
AIICO N1.12 N1.2 0.08 7.14%
LIVESTOCK N2.1 N2.25 0.15 7.14%
FLOURMILL N29.2 N31 1.8 6.16%
ZENITHBANK N24.8 N26 1.2 4.84%
CUTIX N2.15 N2.25 0.1 4.65%

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