Movers & Shakers: February 15, 2018


Botswana: DCI -0.01%, USD 323k

FNBB ($251k) dominated today’s activity accounting for 78% of turnover. The rest of the market was quiet.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.11, USD 3.65m

Not the best of days in Nairobi with foreigners assuming a net sell of 48% of the market and 22% of buying power. KCB (unch, KES45.50) was the only name to break the million dollar mark while Safcom (unch, KES28.75) and Diamond Trust Bank (unch, KES209.00) were the only other two names with some sort of activity on a slow day.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.04%, USD 2.34m

Mixed reaction in Port Louis today with the Semdex closing 4bps higher and the Sem-10 down 11bps. The banking giant MCBG released financial yesterday reporting profit went up by 10.3% but it however closed -0.9% at Rs270.50 with 160K shares exchanging hands.

Nigeria: ASI +2.03%, USD17.43m

Not a bad day in Lagos with the bourse being driven by a number of crosses in the large cap stocks, seeing the financial sector advance 1.31%, while consumers and industrials followed suit up 0.83% and 0.89% respectively. Guaranty (+1.97%, N46.50), Zenith (+0.48%, N31.65), Access (+2.38%, N12.90), Glaxo (unch, N21.20) and FBNH (8.23%, N12.50) were the major movers and shakers on a positive scuttle dominating proceedings.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.90%, USD 12.13m

The lion's share of today's activity took place in normally illiquid stock Natfoods ($10.9m). There was also some small action in PPC($562) and Simbisa ($400k)

African Currencies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE

 

 

CURRENCIES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Country

Index

15-Feb-18

YTD %

 

 

Country

Notation

15-Feb-18

YTD %

 

 

Botswana

DCI

8717.72

-1.61%

 

 

Botswana

BWP

9.47

3.84

 

 

Egypt

CASE 30

14965.93

-0.38%

 

 

Egypt

EGP

17.71

0.54

 

 

Kenya

NSE 20

3703.28

-0.03%

 

 

Ghana

GHS

4.48

0.56

 

 

Malawi

MASI

22731.98

5.25%

 

 

Kenya

KES

101.30

1.86

 

 

Mauritius

SEMDEX

2288.05

3.90%

 

 

Morocco

MAD

9.13

2.16

 

 

 

SEM 10

437.99

3.83%

 

 

Mauritius

MUR

32.46

3.44

 

 

Nigeria

NSI

42604.40

11.34%

 

 

Nigeria

NGN

360.14

-0.04

 

 

Tanzania

TSI

3869.80

-1.26%

 

 

Rwanda

RWF

848.76

0.62

 

 

Rwanda

RSI

133.53

-1.37%

 

 

Tunisia

TND

2.38

3.08

 

 

Uganda

USE ALSI

2076.50

5.00%

 

 

Tanzania

TZS

2,249.47

-0.66

 

 

Zambia

LUSE All Share

5558.63

4.34%

 

 

Uganda

UGX

3,630.50

0.35

 

 

Zimbabwe

Industrial Index

296.84

-8.96%

 

 

BRVM

XOF

536.56

5.15

 

 

 

Mining Index

128.21

-9.98%

 

 

South Africa

ZAR

11.68

6.11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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