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Northern Star's board rejected the offer; Gold Fields' shares took the hit. Plus MTN's US lawsuit entering discovery, the 1 October sell-off in South African banks, and a correction on the Dangote subscription figure.
Chapel Hill Denham says Dangote's IPO passed the digital-subscription records of both offers on day one. Plus Bridge Bank Group's oversubscribed BRVM debut.
FTSE Russell restored Nigeria's Frontier Market status as the NGX closed at a record ₦162.157tn market cap and Dangote's IPO opened to the public — and why the Africa 30 barely registered any of it.
The September AFR30 rebalancing: six constituents in, six out, and why the selection rule needed five amendments before it could stand. Plus the Dangote Refinery IPO opens.
The NGX fell 1.17% the day after reclaiming ₦160 trillion — investors selling what they own to buy what's coming: Dangote's refinery IPO.
The NGX had fallen eight sessions straight and shed ₦5.4 trillion. We said the thing to watch was whether the selling broadened. It didn't — it reversed.
Nigeria lost the title of world's best-performing stock market after five weeks. The same week, two South African gold miners posted a move that rewrites an index.
Lagos filed for what could be Africa's largest listing ever. A Nigerian fintech heads to New York at a $4bn target. And the year's most oversubscribed African IPO happened on an exchange most data providers miss.
One story tests whether leveraged takeovers in Nigerian power were ever sensibly priced. The other is distorting how African equity indices — including ours — are built.