The Regional Securities Exchange closed lower in Abidjan at the session on Monday, 12 October 2026, with its Composite index shedding 0.26% to 545.46 points. This new decline follows Friday's session, when the index had already lost 0.28%.
Other key indicators moved in the same direction. The BRVM 30 closed at 264.15 points, down 0.16%, while the Prestige fell 0.26% to 202.56 points, according to regional exchange data. The Composite thus lost 1.40 points from the previous close of 546.86 points.
The decline does not affect all sectors, however. The industrials index rose 1.95% and the energy index 0.47%. Conversely, utilities fell 0.83% and financial services 0.39%, making for a mixed session behind the market's overall movement.
Among the stocks tracked in Benin, Banque Internationale pour l’Industrie et le Commerce (BIIC) closed at 8,450 FCFA, against 8,440 FCFA on Friday. The gain of 10 FCFA represents about 0.12%, on 6,109 shares traded. In Senegal, Sonatel closed at 45,000 FCFA, after 44,980 FCFA, on volume of 18,950 securities.
The value of transactions recorded by the BRVM reached FCFA 2.919 billion. This is virtually unchanged from FCFA 2.920 billion in the session of 9 October. Equity market capitalisation stands at FCFA 21,390.1 billion, against FCFA 21,445.0 billion on Friday, a decrease of about FCFA 54.9 billion.