Some serious action in Gaborone today with two counters driving the market. Letlole (2.21t, $3.78m) and Sefalana (11.15t, $4.75m) accounting for 43% and 54% of the market respectively.
A slight improvement on the Kenya stock exchange today as Kenol(-5.79%, KES15.45), Equity (-0.58%, KES43.00) and Safcom (unch, KES24.25) dropped or remained unchanged. We saw red flash across most of the board with foreign selling accounting for 44.3% and buying up slightly from the previous day’s trading to 54.8%.
A good way to end the day in Port Louis with a cross of 484.2k shares going through in MCBG (unch, Rs268) accounting for to 31% of turnover.
Another positive day in Lagos with the financial sector closing 3.97% higher and consumers down 0.63%. Massive crosses in Zenith (+6.61%, N24.53), Guaranty (+6.47%, N39.50), Dangcem (+2.37%, N225.00) and UBA (+0.54%, N9.35) to end the week on a high note.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
The volumes were majorly driven by CRDB again today which closed at TZS200 with accounting for 65% of turnover. Small volumes traded in TBL (TZS13000) and DSE (TZS1400.)
The market closed the short week on a quiet note with ZB ($100k) accounting significantly to the total turnover. The industrial index went up by 1.46 points to close the day in green amid gains in Delta ($1.282) and Econet (4.25c).
Country | Notation |
Currency
|
YTD %
|
South Africa | ZAR | 13.09 | 5.13 |
Nigeria | NGN | 315.50 | -0.05 |
Kenya | KES | 102.65 | -0.14 |
Mauritius | MUR | 35.02 | 2.73 |
Botswana | BWP | 10.45 | 2.24 |
Tanzania | TZS | 2235.00 | -2.42 |
Uganda | UGX | 3597.46 | -0.03 |
Rwanda | RWF | 825.00 | -0.36 |
Ghana | GHS | 4.73 | -10.47 |
BRVM | XOF | 624.96 | 0.80 |
Egypt | EGP | 16.15 | 12.35 |
Morocco | MAD | 10.10 | 0.26 |
Tunisia | TNF | 2.31 | 0.49 |