The market opened the new trading month with limited activity taking place in 15 counters. 64 trades of 2m shares turned over $2,578,218.83. Three out of four indices continued to record modest gains as Industrials rose 2.82 points, the TOP TEN Index rose 0.79 points and the mainstream ALL SHARE Index gained 0.84 points. Minings remained stagnant. Top gainers for the day were RTG (+14.67%), CSZL (+2.08%), ZIMR (+1.09%), AXIA (+0.88%) and FBC (+0.42%). Two counters, FML (-1.94%) and ECO (-0.16%), traded weaker while 5 counters remained unchanged