Movers & Shakers: December 04, 2014

Botswana: DCI -0.02%, USD 106k

Another quiet day in Gaborone with nothing notable to comment on.

Kenya: NSE 20 +1.14%, USD 10.6m

The Nairobi bourse reversed all of yesterdays losses thanks to strong foreign buying in the large caps. Accounting for almost half the total volumes today the most active stock was KNCB (+80bps, KES59.50). Safcom (+2.5%, KES14.55), Equity Bank (unch, KES50.00) and EABL (unch, KES314) were all pretty active as well. There was a foreign-foreign cross in KPLL (unch, KES15.30).

Mauritius: Semdex -0.01%, USD 1.0m

A rather slow day in Port Louis as turnover amounted to $1.0m with some action in the likes of NMH (125k shares), SBMH (4.49m shares) and Ciel (571k shares).

Nigeria: ASI -0.24%, USD 24.64m

Some weakness in the banks into the close. Banks (-1.52%) lost ground mostly thanks to GTB (-3.75%, N23.12) and Access (-3.38%, N7.15). Activity was heavily focused in FBNH, GTB and Zenith. The consumers ended the day marginally in the green with activity almost entirely centered in Nestle (+24bps, N800.00) and NB (+18bps, N170.50). In the cements we saw a couple of crosses in Dangcem (unch, N170.00) and Wapco (-62bps, N77.52). As always Oando saw some predominantly local trading (-3.00%, N19.40).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -1.5%, USD 3.25m

A very active day in Harare as turnover amounted to $3.25m with some crosses in Delta ($2.06m) and Econet ($987k) driving proceedings while the market closed the day lower with the Industrial Index falling -1.5%.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.24

-6.70

Nigeria

NGN

179.95

-10.97

Kenya

KES

90.30

-4.43

Mauritius

MUR

31.63

-5.00

Botswana

BWP

9.32

-5.91

Tanzania

TZS

1741.25

-8.69

Uganda

UGX

2750.00

-8.11

Rwanda

RWF

701.02

-3.57

Ghana

GHS

3.21

-26.13

BRVM

XOF

532.34

-9.80

Egypt

EGP

7.14

-2.83

Morocco

MAD

8.88

-7.91

Tunisia

TND

1.85

-11.09
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