It's a real black day this Friday, April 18, 2025 at the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM), whose three flagship indices plunged by more than 2%.

The BRVM Composite index in fact fell 2.44% to 281.52 points against 288.57 points the day before. As for the BRVM 30 index, it recorded the largest drop with 2.73% to 141.29 points against 145.26 points previously. For its part, the BRVM Prestige index fell by 2.37% to 119.52 points against 122.42 points

These decreases are closely linked to the price of leading stocks such as Orange Côte d'Ivoire (-6.27%), Onatel Burkina Faso (-3.70%), Onatel Burkina Faso (-3.70%) and Sonatel Senegal (-3.60%). These are some of the most liquid stocks on the stock market. In addition, they make up the BRVM Telecommunications sector index, whose negative variation (-4.83% against a range of -0.37% and -1.07% for the other sectoral indices) weighed heavily on the regression of the three

Due to the plunge in the BRVM Composite index, the market capitalization of the equity market fell sharply by 264.147 billion FCFA, from 10 823.128 billion FCFA the day before to 10 558.981 billion FCFA on Friday, April 18, 2025.

The bond market is down by 981 million, to 10 433.930 billion FCFA against 10 434.911 billion FCFA the day before.

As for the total value of transactions, it is also down, from 575.095 million FCFA the day before to 426.963 million FCFA this Friday, April 18, 2025.

For the second day in a row, Unilever Côte d'Ivoire (plus 7.49% at 8,895 FCFA) tops the Top 5 of the largest price increases, followed respectively by SMB Côte d'Ivoire shares (plus 1.39% at 8,400 FCFA), Uniwax Côte d'Ivoire (plus 1.27% at 400 FCFA), Bernabé Ivory Coast (plus 1.27% at 400 FCFA), Bernabé Ivory Coast (plus 1.01% to 1,000 FCFA) and SODECI Côte d& & quot; Ivory (plus 0.81% at 6,250

As for the Flop 5 of the largest price drops, it is occupied respectively by Orange Côte d'Ivoire (minus 6.27% to 14,055 FCFA), ONATEL Burkina Faso (minus 3.70% to 2,600 FCFA), ONATEL Burkina Faso (minus 3.70% to 2,600 FCFA), Sonatel Senegal (minus 3.60% to 24,000 FCFA), Palm Côte d'Ivoire (minus 2.63%) at 5,745 FCFA) and BOA Mali (minus 2.36% at 2,685 FCFA).