Movers & Shakers: December 29, 2015

Botswana: Data not available at the time of writing.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.61%, USD 3.0m

Not much to report from Nairobi as locals dominated proceedings with turnover amounting to $3m. Locals dominated both sides of EQBNK as 5m shares traded in the name thanks to a large cross. The usual heavyweights were very quiet with not much on the go in Safcom (2.9m shares), EABL (53k shares) and KNCB (169k shares).

Mauritius: Semdex +0.20%, USD 300k

Nothing to report from Port Louis with turnover amounting to a dull $300k.

Nigeria: ASI -0.40%, USD 17.8m

A rather average start to the week in Lagos after the long weekend with some activity in Sterling Bank ($4.5m), Zenith ($2.4m), GTB ($1.8m) and Access ($1.5m). Banks closed the day lower with the sector falling -0.95% with weakness in UBA (-4.86%) and GTB (-3.45%). Consumers (-1.28%) were also weaker thanks to GSK (-5.00%) and Unilever (-4.95%).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.14%, USD 885k

Not a bad day in Harare (relatively speaking ) as turnover amounted to $885k thanks to some action in Padenga ($459k) and Old Mutual ($132k).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

15.30

-24.39

Nigeria

NGN

199.05

-7.84

Kenya

KES

102.24

-11.38

Mauritius

MUR

35.90

-11.56

Botswana

BWP

11.14

-14.60

Tanzania

TZS

2,149.40

-19.37

Uganda

UGX

3,390.00

-18.26

Rwanda

RWF

746.52

-7.60

Ghana

GHS

3.81

-15.66

BRVM

XOF

612.07

-11.45

Egypt

EGP

7.82

-8.65

Morocco

MAD

9.88

-8.16

Tunisia

TND

2.02

-8.01
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