For the second time within the week, equities trading on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange ended in the negative territory, as the lead performance pointer, NSEASI gave up 72Bpts of its trading points and closed at 39,022.52 from 39,306.47. Safe NSE-Banking and NSE-Oil & Gas indexes that closed in the green, all other observed market indices in this report closed below their respective opening points. Thus, WtD the lead index is 116Bpts below the opening point, while the total lost points in the month of May is now 204Bpts. See the index movement table for details.