CBA and Zip were among the most traded shares on the ASX last week

Australia’s leading investment platform provider CommSec has released data on the most traded ASX shares on its platform from last week.

Once again, there were a number of familiar faces filling up the top five over the period.

Here’s the data:

Westpac Banking Corp (ASX: WBC)

The most popular share on the CommSec platform last week was this banking giant. Westpac shares accounted for 1.6% of trades on the platform, with 48% of them coming from buyers. Despite this even split between buyers and sellers, the Westpac share price recorded a sizeable 8.5% gain. This was driven by COVID-19 vaccine optimism and the improving outlook for bank dividends

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA)

For the same reasons, Commonwealth Bank…