Movers & Shakers: August 15, 2017


Botswana: DCI +0.03%, USD 3.5m

Another decent day in Gaborone today with some action in Sechaba ($1.9m), FNBB ($856k) and Letshego ($213k)

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.91%, USD 8.11m

Action today was split across a number of different counters with these names seeing some solid crosses. The major action went through in Safcom (-1.00%, KES24.75) with the telco bearing witness to multiple crosses. The banks also saw some decent volumes and both were extremely strong – Equity closed at KES44.25 (+0.57%) and KCB unchanged with KES42.25. The only other name worth mentioning was EABL closing at KES266.00 in the breweries trading down (-0.75%).The rest of the market was quiet.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.11%, USD 750k

A rather slow day in Port Louis today with MCBG (-0.4%, Rs268) accounting for about 58% of daily turnover. Some crosses went through in NMH (Rs21.4) with 124.9k shares traded.

Nigeria: ASI -2.25%, USD 14.77m

A very impressive day Loagos today all thanks to some large crosses in the likes of Access (-0.38%, $5.06m), Zenith (-1.02%, $2.5m), Guaranty (-1.47%, $1.2m) and NB (-1.55%, $1.1m). 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 -1.25% lower and consumers saw a -1.02% drop also closing in negative territory on low volume.

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

Tanzania: ASI +11.75, USD 2.9m

Not a bad day in Dar es Salam today as CRDB traded almost 96% of the market turnover. Vodacom Tanzania finally listed on the stock exchange today after being stalled for a couple of months, the price was up +5.88% to TZS900 on just 1,7k shares.

Zimbabwe: Market closed for the day.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.3594

2.825

Nigeria

NGN

366.05

-13.856

Kenya

KES

103.75

-1.23

Mauritius

MUR

33.2595

8.15

Botswana

BWP

10.2936

3.7393

Tanzania

TZS

2227

-2.0634

Uganda

UGX

3600

-0.0972

Rwanda

RWF

841

-2.2592

Ghana

GHS

4.415

-6.9083

BRVM

XOF

563.0303

11.8824

Egypt

EGP

17.7567

2.0741

Morocco

MAD

9.4585

7.0656

Tunisia

TND

2.4789

-4.2736

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