The Regional Securities Exchange of Abidjan ended Monday 19 October down 0.58%, with its Composite index at 529.51 points. Total Côte d'Ivoire recorded the session's steepest decline, of 7.26%, to CFA 2,875 francs.
The decline also hit the exchange's two other main indices. The BRVM 30 fell 0.53% to 256.17 points, while the BRVM Prestige lost 0.37% to 196.22 points, according to closing data published by the exchange.
Decliners outnumbered gainers. Sika Finance counted 27 stocks falling against 13 rising in its session report.
Sucrivoire thus dropped 5.29% to CFA 2,150 francs, and the Compagnie ivoirienne d'électricité 4.31% to CFA 5,550 francs. In contrast, Bernabé Côte d'Ivoire gained 2.49% to CFA 1,850 francs, and Ecobank Côte d'Ivoire 1.89% to CFA 16,200 francs.
Transaction value came to 1.938 billion CFA francs. Equity market capitalisation stood at about 20,765 billion CFA francs, according to the BRVM's official figures.
Entrance to the BRVM headquarters in Abidjan, on 26 September 2008. Archive photo. Zenman / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Image resized and converted to WebP under the same licence.
