Movers & Shakers: April 22, 2016


Botswana: DCI -0.08%, USD 18k

Another dreadful day in terms of activity in Gaborone.

Kenya: NSE 20 +1.06%, USD 5.6m

Another average day in Nairobi with foreign selling slowing down for the first time in a few sessions as the market managed to close +1.06% higher. Profit taking in Safcom continued for the second day in a row as the telco fell -1.7% on 12.2m shares. There was finally a bit of activity in EABL as the brewer managed to close +1.4% higher on foreign demand as 372k shares traded. A local cross drove activity in the usually illiquid StanChart with 277k shares changing hands while the two major banking stocks EQBNK and KNCB were rather quiet.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.07%, USD 510k

Another dull day to end the week in Port Louis with MCBG (34k shares) once again the only name worth mentioning.

Nigeria: ASI -0.24%, USD 7.5m

A slightly better day in terms of activity, but still nothing to write home about as turnover increased to $7.5m with some activity in NB ($1.9m) thanks to a cross early in the session and GTB ($1.8m). Banking stocks closed the day lower as the sector fell -0.97% with some weakness in Access (-3.77%) and UBA (-3.71%). Consumers (-0.52%) also closed in negative territory thanks to Guinness (-1.84%) after they released rather dissapointing Q3 2016 numbers.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.27%, USD 775k

Aa better day in Harare, but still nothing to write home about, thanks to some action in the likes of Dawn ($318k), Delta ($124k), Old Mutual ($167k) and NatFoods ($118k).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

14.33

7.92

Nigeria

NGN

198.90

0.20

Kenya

KES

101.23

1.11

Mauritius

MUR

35.10

2.14

Botswana

BWP

10.73

4.60

Tanzania

TZS

2199.00

-2.26

Uganda

UGX

3315.00

1.72

Rwanda

RWF

800.00

-6.88

Ghana

GHS

3.81

-0.13

BRVM

XOF

591.13

4.63

Egypt

EGP

8.88

-11.89

Morocco

MAD

9.69

2.53

Tunisia

TNF

2.02

0.92

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