Movers & Shakers: April 30, 2015

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Botswana: DCI +0.18%, USD 42.k

The market remains quiet.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.60%, USD 6.8m

The market recouped its previous days losses on the back of improved foreign demand (Foreign buys accounted for 66.1% of trades). The main movers of the day included KCB (+0.8%, KES62.50), EABL (+0.3%, KES321) and Safaricom (+0.6%, KES17.40). Equity Bank shed 0.5% despite positive Q1-15 results (10.7% increase in net profits). Other notable losers included Centum (-0.8%, KES63.50) and Uchumi (-3.8%, KES10.10).

Mauritius: Semdex +0.13%, USD 1.33m

The index recovered well to end the week in the green. Total turnover was mainly geared towards SBM - accounted for 61.7% of total turnover. The counter traded a total of 31m shares to close unchanged at Rs0.94 on the back of sustained investor demand whilst MCBG closed up 0.5% at Rs201.25 after trading a paltry 5k shares.

Nigeria: ASI +1.93%, USD 18.8m

The market recovered well after three straight days of losses. The Banking index closed up by 1.12% due to gains in GTB (+1.59%, N28.75), UBA (+3.52%, N5.29) and Zenith Bank (+1.20%, N21.15). The Consumer index also recouped its previous losses, gaining 2.00% on the back of gains in Guinness (+3.66%, N170) and NB (+3.86%, N157.01). A string of companies released Q1-15 results; among them were ETI, Dangote Cement, Lafarge and Transcorp.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.09%, USD 206k

Most counters closed the day unchanged. Top movers included Delta (unch, 105c), Econet (unch, 49c), Innscor (unch, 59c) and Old Mutual (unch, 251c).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.94

-3.17

Nigeria

NGN

199.00

-7.81

Kenya

KES

94.65

-4.28

Mauritius

MUR

35.25

-9.93

Botswana

BWP

9.75

-2.43

Tanzania

TZS

2015.00

-14.00

Uganda

UGX

3008.00

-7.88

Rwanda

RWF

689.24

+0.08

Ghana

GHS

3.87

-16.97

BRVM

XOF

589.85

-8.11

Egypt

EGP

7.62

-6.19

Morocco

MAD

9.73

-6.19

Tunisia

TND

1.92

-2.72
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