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Movers & Shakers: April 22, 2015
Botswana: DCI -0.02%, USD 85k
Market remains quiet.
Kenya: NSE 20 -0.61%, USD 7.1m
Foreign selling pressure in large caps Safcom (-0.9%, KES17.05), Equity bank (-0.5%, KES48) and EABL (-2.7%, KES320) pulled the index into negative territory. The latter was the worst performing large cap counter to close at a two week low of KES320 as 785k shares were exchanged in the name. At the top of the losers list was Britam (-0.9%, KES20.25) on the back of media reports indicating that one of its directors is set to face fraud charges.
Mauritius: Semdex +0.32%, USD 2.2m
SBM emerged as the most active name in the session after trading an impressive 9.5m shares to close down 1.1% at Rs0.90. MCBG shed 0.4% to close at Rs197.75 on the back of 184k shares traded. Other counters on the index closed the session unchanged on small volumes.
Nigeria: ASI +0.06%, USD 17.6m
Generally the market was very quiet. The banking index witnessed buying interest in the likes of UBA (+6.86%, N5.61), Access bank (+0.15%, N6.74) and FBNH (+0.96%, N10.54) to close up 0.93%. On the contrary, the consumer index shed 0.86% as most names registered small volumes. NB (-3.71%, N151.20) and Wapco (+2.27%, N92) were the most actively traded names in the sector.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.15%, USD 2.2m
Delta accounted for the bulk of activity today, contributing a total of $1m towards turnover. The counter traded a total of 1.8m shares at 106c which was its closing price. Other movers included Econet (unch, 49c) and Seedco (+1.05%, 9 7.01c) trading a total of 176k and 214k shares respectively.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
12.18 |
-5.06 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
199.03 |
-7.83 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
93.85 |
-3.46 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
36.01 |
-11.84 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.96 |
-4.52 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1912.50 |
-9.39 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
3007.00 |
-7.85 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
707.60 |
-2.51 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.84 |
-16.21 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
614.11 |
-11.73 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.57 |
-5.62 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9.98 |
-9.07 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.96 |
-4.96 |
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