Movers & Shakers: April 16, 2015


Botswana: DCI +0.06, USD 12.9k

The market remains dead.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.92%, USD 6.3m

ARM was among the top movers of the day with the counter closing down 5.88% at KES74.50 - on foreign selling. Other movers included KNCB (unch, KES65), Equity bank (-0.54%, KES46) and Safcom (-4.29%, KES16.75) trading 4.18m, 2.32m and 49.33m shares respectively. Foreigners were mainly geared towards the sell side of these counters as they continue to capitalize on previous weeks rallies.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.05%, USD 1.2m

SBMH mirrored its eves losses to close down a further 1.1% at Rs0.93 on a total of 11.3m shares traded. MCBG closed unchanged at Rs199.50 after touching a high of Rs200.00, the counter traded a total of 92k shares.

Nigeria: ASI -0.38%, USD 19.4m

Another boring day in Lagos as the market doesnt really know which way to go. The banks gained 1.13% as the sector remains unconvincing. There was some action in Tier 1 names such as GTB (+88bps, N28.60 released Q1 results) and Zenith (-75bps, N22.49). Consumers fell by 1.79% although volumes in the sector were nothing to write home about.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.22%, USD 708k

Index closed the session in negative territory as Econet emerged the winner of the day ($246k). It was another dire day with turnover amounting to a paltry $708k. The top movers included Delta (+0.53%, 104c) and Econet (unch, 49c) trading 115k and 503k shares respectively.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.00

-3.64

Nigeria

NGN

199.05

-7.84

Kenya

KES

93.50

-3.10

Mauritius

MUR

36.22

-12.35

Botswana

BWP

9.90

-3.94

Tanzania

TZS

1915.00

-9.50

Uganda

UGX

3000.00

-7.63

Rwanda

RWF

700.16

-1.48

Ghana

GHS

3.85

-16.43

BRVM

XOF

613.32

-11.62

Egypt

EGP

7.57

-5.61

Morocco

MAD

10.03

-9.58

Tunisia

TND

1.96

-5.16

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