Movers & Shakers: August 30, 2017


Botswana: DCI -0.03%, USD 2.67m:

Another blockbuster day in Gaborone today with Chobe ($1.77m) being 66% of total market turnover followed by FNBB ($756k) and Letshego ($80k) seeing the rest of the counters extremely quiet.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.08%, USD 6.01m

Safcom (-1.87%, KES26.25) leading the way on the Nairobi bourse today with almost a half of the market amounting to $2.50m. Other counters worth noting were EABL (-0.38%, KES262.00) and KCB (unch, KES42.25). Once again foreign investors out played the locals with 70% of the market sales.

Mauritius: Semdex unch, USD 1.33m

Turnover for the day amounted to Rs43.7m, another decent day thanks to the usual suspect MCBG almost 70% of the market as 110k shares changed hands in the name while there was also some action in MDIT as 494k shares traded.

Nigeria: ASI -1.48%, USD 8.14m

Activity picked up slightly from yesterday with some small activity in DANGCEM (-3.82%, $1.8m), Nestle (unch, $1.6m), Access (-3.9%, $902k) as well as a chunky cross in UBA (-1.46%, $777k). Banking stocks closed the day lower with the sector falling -0.77%, with some pressure on Access (-3.90%) and FBNH (-3.57%).

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 +1.58%, USD 317k

The industrial index edged up while turnover dropped with some activity in Delta ($90k), Padenga ($64k) and PPC ($59k) the only names worth mentioning.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.03

5.38

Nigeria

NGN

360.05

-12.42

Kenya

KES

103.20

-0.71

Mauritius

MUR

32.61

14.59

Botswana

BWP

10.13

5.45

Tanzania

TZS

2242.55

-2.74

Uganda

UGX

3600.25

-0.10

Rwanda

RWF

844.00

-2.61

Ghana

GHS

4.43

-7.12

BRVM

XOF

555.19

12.62

Egypt

EGP

17.65

2.67

Morocco

MAD

9.36

8.22

Tunisia

TND

2.46

-5.64

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