Movers & Shakers: August 04, 2016


Botswana: DCI -0.14%, USD 7k

Another non-event in Gaborone.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.44%, USD 3.6m

The day never got going by any stretch of the imagination today in Kenya as foreign investors were generally uninvolved. As an indication, the most active stock was Centum which closed up 90bps at KES108.00. There was some mild activity in Safcom with the telco finally showing some weakness (-3%, KES19.65) as the aggressive foreign buyers in recent weeks stepped away. KNCB (unch, KES31.50) announced 2016 H1 results in the morning.

Mauritius: Semdex +1.51%, USD 960k

A rather uneventful day in Port Louis as less than $1m changed hands. For a change the top traded stock was not one of the banks with Alteo (+1.6%, Rs32.00) topping the charts although both MCBG (+10bps, Rs208.75) and SBMH (+1.5%, Rs0.69) closed the day in the green.

Nigeria: ASI +0.23%, USD 4.9m

Another eerily dull day in Nigeria with a complete lack of interest across the board. Banks fell by another 58bps today with only GTB (-75bps, N23.88) displaying even a modicum of activity. Consumers did actually increase by 78bps although the sector was dead.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.06%, USD 42k

Nothing of note in Zimbabwe today.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.75

12.47

Nigeria

NGN

317.35

-37.20

Kenya

KES

101.40

0.84

Mauritius

MUR

35.22

1.79

Botswana

BWP

10.52

6.73

Tanzania

TZS

2188.00

-1.77

Uganda

UGX

3375.00

-0.09

Rwanda

RWF

792.41

-5.98

Ghana

GHS

3.96

-3.91

BRVM

XOF

597.01

3.67

Egypt

EGP

8.88

-11.87

Morocco

MAD

9.78

1.65

Tunisia

TNF

2.22

-7.83

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