Stock Trading Daily Digest – October 01, 2025

Today’s Stock Market update 📈. Catch the top movers across Nigeria, Africa, and global equities.

1. 🇳🇬 Tinubu appoints new heads for key agencies – Punch Newspapers
2. 🇳🇬 Nigeria’s rent crisis deepens as two-bedroom flats hit N2.5m – Punch Newspapers
3. U.S. government shuts down after midnight as Congress fails to pass funding bills
4. Lithium Americas stock pops 35% as government takes a stake to boost Nevada project
5. Stocks retreat, gold hits record as US government shutdown begins – Reuters
6. Equities gain in late spurt as US government shutdown looms – Reuters
7. 🇳🇬 Providus Bank may list on NGX after Unity Bank merger
8. 🇳🇬 Champion Breweries targets N58bn equity raise to finance Bullet acquisition
9. 🇳🇬 Nairametrics – Business news, Economy, Investing, and Financial Literacy – Nairametrics
10. 🇳🇬 Stock Market Archives – Nairametrics
11. Stock Market News Sept. 30, 2025: Stocks Advance as Shutdown Deadline Nears – The Wall Street Journal
12. Petrochemical Deal Could Be Berkshire Hathaway’s Largest in Years – The Wall Street Journal
13. Global currency market swells to $10tn a day in tariff turmoil – Financial Times
14. China probes quant trader Tower Research over chip imports – Financial Times
15. Hedge Funds Have To Be Big – Bloomberg.com
16. The Perfect AI Startup – Bloomberg.com
17. Stocks Sink in Broad AI Rout Sparked by China’s DeepSeek
18. Comex Gold, Silver Settle Lower
19. Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures fall with government shutdown all but certain – Yahoo Finance
20. Stocks end third quarter on high note as Dow clinches record, Big Tech extends gains as AI trade rolls on – Yahoo Finance

That’s it for today’s stock market roundup! Which market do you think will rally next? 🚀