Movers & Shakers: December 08, 2017

Botswana: DCI -0.11, USD 129k

The little volume the stock exchange experienced was divided mostly across a handful of names with Letshego ($96k) accounting for 74% of the market, Letlole ($10k) and BTCL ($12k) making up the numbers.

Kenya: NSE 20 -32.30.03%, USD 3.57m

Market turnover on the Nairobi bourse declined by approximately 32% from last weeks close with foreigners assuming 81% of today’s buying and 66% of selling. Safcom (KES27.75) was the only ticker to break the $1m mark advancing 0.90% trading at KES28.00, while Eqiuty (-0.61%, KES40.75), Scan (-5.61%, KES18.50) and KCB (-0.59%, KES42.00) were below par on a tough day.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.14%, USD 1.36m

A decent day in Port Louis as Rs46m exchanged hands geared towards Grit and MCBG accounting for a combined 66% of total market turnover. MCBG declined 0.2% trading at Rs257.50 while Grit was unmoved at Rs1.35 and Lux Island Resorts followed suit at Rs62.25 while the rest of the market was quiet.

Nigeria: ASI +0.03%, USD 74.4m

A massive day in Lagos today, as we saw a cross of 72m Dangcem shares exchanging hands, both sides were locals. The banking sector dipped on the back of losses in FCMB (-4.69%, N1.22), Fidelity (-4.64%, N2.26), and ETI NL (-3.95%, N17.26). Other notable trades of the day included Zenith $2.5m, and FBNH $1.2m.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.65%, USD 2.85m

A slight improvement on the ZSE seeing the industrial and the mining indexes advance on the back of Old Mutual (450.00c, $838k) accounting for almost 30% of the market, Seed Co (2.09c, $627k), Innscor (109.75c, $440k) and Riozim (120.00c, $323k) all with decent volumes.

African Currencies

                       
  AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE     CURRENCIES  
                       
  Country Index 12-Dec-17 YTD %     Country Notation 11-Dec-17 YTD %  
  Botswana DCI 8878.47 -8.48%     Botswana BWP 10.36 3.31  
  Egypt CASE 30 14590.20 18.20%     Egypt EGP 17.82 1.73  
  Kenya NSE 20 3731.79 17.12%     Ghana GHS 4.51 -8.82  
  Malawi MASI 21480.88 61.26%     Kenya KES 103.15 -0.66  
  Mauritius SEMDEX 2162.00 19.56%     Morocco MAD 9.47 6.88  
    SEM 10 409.98 18.82%     Mauritius MUR 33.97 5.87  
  Morocco MASI 12406.92 6.55%     Nigeria NGN 360.33 -12.49  
  Nigeria NSI 38924.63 44.84%     Rwanda RWF 853.50 -3.69  
  Tanzania TSI 3862.50 5.02%     Tunisia TND 2.52 -7.63  
  Rwanda RSI 134.39 5.60%     Tanzania TZS 2 245.25 -2.86  
  Uganda USE ALSI 1808.36 22.40%     Uganda UGX 3 620.55 -0.66  
  Zambia LUSE All Share 5343.61 28.50%     BRVM XOF 574.94 9.56  
  Zimbabwe Industrial Index 335.82 130.65%     South Africa ZAR 13.65 0.64  
    Mining Index 140.32 139.82%     Zimbabwe *OMIR 1.69 24.09  
              *Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate    

 

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