Movers & Shakers: December 01, 2014

Botswana: DCI unch, USD 5k

Absolutely nothing happened in Gaborone today.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.31%, USD 22.8m

An absolutely mammoth start to the week from an activity point of view as turnover amounted to $22.8m with locals dominating proceedings thanks to a large cross in Centum as 25.19m shares changed hands on the day. There was a large foreign cross in NSE as 5.39m shares traded in the name. Foreign demand continued to drive Safcom (+0.7%) as 6.08m shares traded in the telco. Foreigners accounted for 100% of purchases in EABL as the brewer closed 1.0% higher.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.04%, USD 1.50m

A quieter day than usual in Port Louis with the bulk of the action taking place in MCBG (unch, Rs203.75) while there was also some decent activity in Ciel (unch, Rs7.78). SBMH closed unchanged at Rs1.03.

Nigeria: ASI -1.82%, USD 24.1m

A rather average start to the week from an activity point of view in Lagos as turnover amounted to $24.1m with some action in the likes of Stanbic ($7.11m), NB ($4.89), GTB ($2.13m) and WAPCO ($1.88m). Banks closed the day lower with the Index falling -1.01% thanks to UBA (-6.24%), FBNH (-4.52%) and Access (-1.18%). There was some profit taking in consumer stocks as the sector closed -1.59% lower with some weakness in Dangote Sugar (-4.88%), Guinness (-4.42%) and Nestle (-2.32%). Cements were under pressure with Dangcem and WAPCO closing -2.72% and -1.25% lower respectively.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.22%, USD 588k

A quiet start to the week in Harare. More than 90% of the market activity took place in Delta (113c) with all other names extremely quiet.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.00

-4.60

Nigeria

NGN

184.15

-12.95

Kenya

KES

90.10

-4.22

Mauritius

MUR

31.57

-4.83

Botswana

BWP

9.19

-4.94

Tanzania

TZS

1740.50

-8.65

Uganda

UGX

2767.75

-8.70

Rwanda

RWF

690.49

-2.10

Ghana

GHS

3.19

-25.55

BRVM

XOF

528.40

-9.13

Egypt

EGP

7.14

-2.83

Morocco

MAD

8.83

-7.36

Tunisia

TND

1.84

-10.59
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