Movers & Shakers: August 10, 2017


Botswana: DCI -0.05%, USD 51k

Another quiet day in Gaborone today with BIHL accounting for 94% of turnover.

Kenya: NSE 20 +1.4%, USD 2.0m

Another quiet day in Kenya as the index closed higher, with KNCB ($638k), EQBNK ($365k) and BMBC ($364k) the most active names on the day. Foreign participation was down to 55%.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.4%, USD 3.66m

Another solid day on the activity front in Port Louis, thanks to some action in GRIT as 2.0m shares exchanged hands driven by a foreign purchase. There was also some action in CIEL and SBM which traded 1.26m and 757k shares respectively.

Nigeria: ASI -0.11%, USD 15.20m

A decent day in Nigeria due to decent trades in Guaranty (-1.16%, $2.96m), Zenith (-2.04%, $3.91m), Access (+1.33%, $1.93m) and Nestle (+0.82%, $2.90m). Banking stocks had a solid day, but it must be said that there was a sell-off from the day's highs into the close as the sector closed -0.99% lower. Consumers saw a +0.41% rise also closing in positive territory on low volume.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.17%, USD 822k

Block trades in bankers CBZH (307k) and ZBFH (302k) drove the daily turnover today in a session with high demand in almost all stocks.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.3472

3.0255

Nigeria

NGN

367.25

-14.1375

Kenya

KES

103.95

-1.42

Mauritius

MUR

33.1638

8.46

Botswana

BWP

10.2671

4.1667

Tanzania

TZS

2224.81

-1.9727

Uganda

UGX

3606

-0.3049

Rwanda

RWF

833.2202

-1.3466

Ghana

GHS

4.435

-7.3281

BRVM

XOF

561.9023

12.1093

Egypt

EGP

17.781

1.9346

Morocco

MAD

9.4667

6.9548

Tunisia

TND

2.4114

-3.7845

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