Movers & Shakers: April 13, 2017

Botswana: DCI -0.01%, USD 89k

Another quiet day in Gaborone.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.23%, USD 18.1m

A very impressive day in Nairobi to end the week ahead of the Easter break thanks once again to Safcom ($14.4m) as 76.3m shares changed hands with the telco closing +0.77% higher. Elsewhere there was some small activity in BATK ($829k) and KNCB ($792k).

Mauritius: Semdex +0.45%, USD 1.9m

A solid day in Port Louis thanks to a large cross in CIM as 3.5m shares changed hands while there was also some decent action in MCBG (54k shares) and SBMH (1.3m shares).

Nigeria: ASI +0.05%, USD 7.4m

A better day in Lagos, but still nothing to write home about with Zenith ($1.4m) and GTB ($1.3m) the only names worth mentioning on the activity front. Banking stocks (-0.08%) closed the day slightly lower thanks to GTB (-0.68%) while consumers fell -0.12% on tiny volume. Inflation for March slowed to 17.26% from 17.78% in February.

Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.40%, USD 65k

Nothing to report from Harare on the activity front. Delta released their Q4 and FY 2017 trading update today which saw revenues down -15% for the quarter and -10% for the year.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.48

1.92

Nigeria

NGN

314.93

0.13

Kenya

KES

103.45

-0.91

Mauritius

MUR

35.34

1.79

Botswana

BWP

10.53

1.39

Tanzania

TZS

2224.55

-1.96

Uganda

UGX

3616.81

-0.56

Rwanda

RWF

838.50

-1.97

Ghana

GHS

4.23

0.12

BRVM

XOF

619.35

1.72

Egypt

EGP

18.09

0.26

Morocco

MAD

10.07

0.55

Tunisia

TND

2.35

-0.32
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