Nigeria Stocks End Year as World’s Best With 50% Gain

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Nigerian benchmark stock index rose 1.9% at close on Thursday, moving the year-to-date gain to the most in more than a decade.

The Lagos bourse closed with 50% gain at 40,270.7 points, the most since December 2007. The equity index is the world leader among the 93 stock indexes tracked by Bloomberg.