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Movers & Shakers: August 12, 2015


Botswana: DCI +0.01%, USD 250k

Activity dropped off in Gaborone today as turnover amounted to $250k with Choppies (424k shares) once again the most active.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.46%, USD 2.4m

Barely anything to note in a painfully dull day in Nairobi. It was a sluggish start, a sluggish middle and a sluggish end to the session. The market retreated on the back of the complete lack of interest with most names closing in the red. The only large cap name to buck this trend was Safcom which gained 60bps to KES15.60. The losers included KNCB (-1.5%, KES48.75), EABL (-1.3%, KES309.00) and Equity Bank (-1.2%, KES42.50).

Mauritius: Semdex -0.14%, USD 2.02m

A much better day in Port Louis as total value traded amounted to $2.02m thanks to crosses in SBMH (29.6m shares) and PBL (43k shares) while there was also some activity in MCBG (57k shares) and ENL Land (222k shares).

Nigeria: ASI -0.52%, USD 8.5m

For most of the day it felt as if the NSE was shut with absolutely no interest whatsoever from most clients. This was reflected in the generally soft performance across almost the entire market. Banks fell by 1.56% with all names closing in the red. Volumes were led by GTB (-2.98%, N23.76) and Access (-1.51%, N4.58). Consumers slipped by 47bps although outside of Nestle (-58bps, N860.00) the activity in the sector was woeful.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.45%, USD 575k

Not much on the go in Harare after the long weekend as turnover amounted to $575k with some small action in Zimplow ($220k) and Econet ($163k.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.78

-9.49

Nigeria

NGN

199.05

-7.84

Kenya

KES

101.02

-10.25

Mauritius

MUR

35.55

-10.69

Botswana

BWP

10.15

-5.95

Tanzania

TZS

2122.00

-18.33

Uganda

UGX

3552.00

-21.99

Rwanda

RWF

748.50

-7.84

Ghana

GHS

3.98

-19.19

BRVM

XOF

590.82

-8.25

Egypt

EGP

7.83

-8.66

Morocco

MAD

9.72

-6.70

Tunisia

TND

1.94

-4.19

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