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Movers & Shakers: August 29, 2017
Botswana: DCI -0.03%, USD 2.59m
A good day in Gaborone with BIHL ($2.47m) being the lion’s share with 95% of the market turnover and Choppies ($35k) the only counters worth mentioning on the bourse.
Kenya: NSE 20 -1.15%, USD 8.31m
Nairobi stock exchange starting to pick up once again today split between a number of different counters with these names seeing some solid crosses. The major movers and shakers today being Safaricom (unch, KES26.75) almost half the market, EABL (-1.50%, KES263.00) and KCB (-0.55%, KES45.25). Foreign participation falling to 43% on the sell side and 36% on the buy side of total the market.
Mauritius: Semdex -0.07%, USD 1.00m
Things slowed down in Port Louis with indices closing in the red. Turnover was driven by MCBG (unch, Rs269) and SBMH (unch, Rs7.86) and SUN (+1.1, Rs44) which accounted for 53.6%.
Nigeria: ASI -0.42%, USD 4.20m
A rather dull day in Lagos with no name managing to break the $1m turnover mark, some activity in GTB (+0.77%, $606) the only name worth mentioning. Banking stocks closed + 0.27%, while the consumer sector and the industrial sector shed -0.38% and -0.53% respectively.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Tanzania: Data not available at the time of writing
Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.57%, USD 897k
A below par day in Harare with volumes headlined in the likes of Econet (47.21c, $226k), Delta (137.01c, $174k), PPC (72.56c, $163k) and Zimre (1.50c, $140k) accounting for over 82% of the market turnover, the rest of the market was fairly quiet.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
13,00 |
5,73 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
355,99 |
-11,42 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
103,20 |
-0,71 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
32,61 |
10,31 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
10,08 |
5,98 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
2239,95 |
-2,63 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
3601,21 |
-0,13 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
834,56 |
-1,50 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
4,43 |
-7,12 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
555,19 |
12,62 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
17,65 |
2,67 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9,31 |
8,84 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
2,45 |
-5,56 |
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