Movers & Shakers: August 21, 2017

Botswana: DCI +0.04%, USD 2.36m

A solid start to the week in Gaborone thanks to some action in unusual names Turnstar ($805k), NAP($804k) and Primetime ($588k)which accounted for 93% of turnover .

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.37%, USD 2.1m

A very quiet day in Kenya with the most active stocks in the market being Safcom which closed at KES24.75 (+2.06%) with $360k trading in the name, Equity (unch, KES43.00) and Centum(-0.37%, KES42.75). The rest of the counters were extremely quiet..

Mauritius: Semdex +0.01%, USD 1.64m

Trading was driven by foreign crosses in MCB (unch, Rs268) which accounted for 62% of exchanges today.

Nigeria: ASI -0.91%, USD 17.42m

A very impressive day Loagos today all thanks to some large crosses in the likes of Guaranty (+3.04%, $6.8m), Dangcem (-4.17%, $2.6m), Betaglass (+4.38%, $1.6m) and Zenith (-1.15%, $1.5m). 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 +0.80% higher and consumers saw a +0.73% increase.

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

Tanzania: Data not available at the time of writing

Zimbabwe: Industrial Industrial +0.43%, USD 1.51m

A decent day to start the week in Harare on the back of Delta (+1.36%, $1.30) which traded 1m shares and accounted for 92% of the turnover.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13,18

4,27

Nigeria

NGN

360,25

-12,47

Kenya

KES

103,14

-0,65

Mauritius

MUR

33,40

7,70

Botswana

BWP

10,19

4,70

Tanzania

TZS

2232,60

-2,31

Uganda

UGX

3601,50

-0,14

Rwanda

RWF

843,50

-2,55

Ghana

GHS

4,43

-7,12

BRVM

XOF

559,47

12,59

Egypt

EGP

17,75

2,11

Morocco

MAD

9,41

7,66

Tunisia

TND

2,45

-6,05
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