The Federal Government of Nigeria raised over N2.36 trillion from the capital market in 2020, the Nigerian Stock Exchange has revealed.
The Chief Executive Officer of the NSE, Oscar Onyema, made the revelation at the 2020 market recap/2021 outlook on Tuesday.
He said the Federal Government issuances amounted to 92 per cent of total bond issuances in the market and that corporates also leveraged the low yield environment to fund expansion objectives and pursue debt refinancing, raising a total of N192bn.
Onyema, while delivering his presentation, said, “Capital-raising activities in the fixed income market increased significantly in 2020. The NSE’s bond market capitalisation rose by 35.52 per cent from N12.92tn in 2019 to N17.50tn.
“The year 2020 was indeed a historic one for global capital markets. Facing buffeting headwinds, world markets saw sharp swings and steep losses, but largely remained resilient and orderly amid rising uncertainty.
“For The Exchange, renewed investor optimism coupled with improved economic conditions and low fixed income yields, propelled a year end bull run. Of 93 global equity indices tracked by Bloomberg, the NSE All Share Index emerged the best-performing index in the world, surpassing the S&P 500 (+16.26 per cent), Dow Jones Industrial Index (+7.25 per cent) and other global and African market indexes, to post a one-year return of +50.03 per cent.
“At the close of the year, the NSE’s equity market capitalisation was up by 62.42 per cent, from N12.97tn in 2019 to N21.06tn in 2020 while market turnover saw an uptick of 7.25 per cent, from N0.96tn in 2019 to N1.03Tn in 2020.
“Although Initial Public Offering activity was mute, the value of supplementary issues increased dramatically from 2019, rising by 851.37 per cent to N1.42tn, from N148.77bn.”
