The DCI continued its downward trend shedding 1.79 points today. Activity was driven by Sechaba which was 96% of turnover.
A slow start to the week in Nairobi with foreigners being 68% of the buying and 59% of selling power. Safcom unchanged traded at KES29.25 dominating today’s proceedings with more than a third of the market while KCB followed suit treading light at KES45.50 followed suit. Equity group declined declined by 1.4% with the rest of the market being very quiet.
The indices closed in the red today, both the Semdex and the Sem-10 down -0.09%. Activity was gear towards the banking duo MCBG (+0.3%, Rs271.25) and SBMH (unch, Rs7.74) together they accounted for 64% of turnover.
A semi-decent day in Lagos with the financial sector appreciating 0.01%, consumers retreated 1.62% as industrials followed suit at 1.48%. Zenith lead the way even though we saw it depreciating by 2.19% trading at N31.30, Guinness followed suit loosing 0.10% at N104.90 and Guaranty advancing 2.15% trading at N47.50. The rest of the market was extremely quiet.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Today’s activity was dominated by OML (unch, $5.30), Nampak (-2.9%, $0.1650) and Delta (-0.8%, $1.60) the only names worth mentioning.
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Index |
19-Feb-18 |
YTD % |
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Country |
Notation |
19-Feb-18 |
YTD % |
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Botswana |
DCI |
8712.26 |
-1.67% |
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Botswana |
BWP |
9.48 |
3.84 |
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Egypt |
CASE 30 |
15158.12 |
0.89% |
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Egypt |
EGP |
17.68 |
0.71 |
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Kenya |
NSE 20 |
3719.47 |
0.40% |
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Ghana |
GHS |
4.47 |
0.78 |
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Malawi |
MASI |
22731.98 |
5.25% |
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Kenya |
KES |
101.32 |
1.84 |
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Mauritius |
SEMDEX |
2285.91 |
3.80% |
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Morocco |
MAD |
9.17 |
1.72 |
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SEM 10 |
437.60 |
3.74% |
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Mauritius |
MUR |
32.55 |
3.15 |
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Nigeria |
NSI |
41988.18 |
9.73% |
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Nigeria |
NGN |
360.10 |
-0.03 |
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Tanzania |
TSI |
3869.98 |
-1.26% |
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Rwanda |
RWF |
848.76 |
0.62 |
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Rwanda |
RSI |
133.21 |
-1.60% |
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Tunisia |
TND |
2.39 |
3.11 |
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Uganda |
USE ALSI |
2074.96 |
4.92% |
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Tanzania |
TZS |
2,249.47 |
-0.66 |
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Zambia |
LUSE All Share |
5582.63 |
4.79% |
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Uganda |
UGX |
3,633.52 |
0.27 |
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Zimbabwe |
Industrial Index |
295.76 |
-9.29% |
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BRVM |
XOF |
540.90 |
4.31 |
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Mining Index |
128.21 |
-9.98% |
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South Africa |
ZAR |
11.66 |
6.17 |
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