Movers & Shakers: February 03, 2015

Botswana: DCI -0.03%, USD 7.7k

A total of 23,687 shares were exchanged in the entire market today

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.38%, USD 6.0m

Another very average day in Nairobi as locals completely dominated proceedings (70%) with total value traded amounting to $6.0m. Foreign demand drove Co-op Bank +2.3% higher as 4.99m shares traded in the name. Local selling pressure pushed EABL -0.3% lower as 152k shares traded in the brewer. There was some foreign action in the usually illiquid UMME as 1.99m shares traded while Mumias Sugar gained +6.3% on local demand.

Mauritius: Closed for the day.

Nigeria: ASI +0.46%, USD 20.1m

A better day in Lagos but still nothing to write home about as turnover increased to $20.1m. There was some action in Dangote Sugar ($3.73m), DangCem ($2.56m), Zenith ($2.55m), FBNH ($1.95m) and Access ($1.58m). Banks were on the charge today with the sector gainig +3.28% thanks to good gains in Zenith (+5.00%), GTB (+4.98%) and Access (+3.90%). Consumers (-0.49%) closed lower with NB (-2.01%) and Unilever (-0.93%) dragging the sector lower.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.03%, USD 1.58m

Turnover managed to break the $1m mark, buoyed by trades in Delta($272k) , Econet ($588k) , Seedco ($462k) and Innscor ($)224k. The giant teleco, Econet traded a total of 1.09m shares to close at 51c, while the other movers traded 244k, 453k and 387k shares respectively.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.43

+1.24

Nigeria

NGN

190.04

-3.47

Kenya

KES

91.65

-1.15

Mauritius

MUR

32.67

-2.82

Botswana

BWP

9.56

-0.86

Tanzania

TZS

1800.00

-3.72

Uganda

UGX

2862.50

-3.20

Rwanda

RWF

690.24

-0.54

Ghana

GHS

3.31

-4.52

BRVM

XOF

576.34

-5.92

Egypt

EGP

7.63

-6.30

Morocco

MAD

9.49

-4.39

Tunisia

TND

1.92

-2.95
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