Movers & Shakers: February 21, 2018


Botswana: DCI +0.10%, USD 597k

The DCI improved slightly closing 8.81 points higher. Activity was dominated by an unusual suspect PRIME ($335k). There was also some small activity in NAP, Turnstar and Letshego.

Kenya: NSE 20 -22.40%, USD 10.11m

A booming day in Nairobi with foreigners doing the bulk of the purchasing accounting for about 78% in total of the market and 44% of overall sales. Safcom led the way once again unchanged trading at KES29.75, Diamond Trust also unmoved traded at KES210.00, while EQBK retreated 0.58% to close KES43.00 and KCB followed suit declining 0.55% at KES45.50.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.41%, USD 1.57m

The indices clipped higher today in Port Louis, with the Semdex up 41bps and the Sem-10 up 38bps. MCBG recovered to close +1.3% at Rs274.00 and accounting for 57% of turnover. SBMH also closed +0.3% higher at Rs7.76 dominated by foreign activity.

Nigeria: ASI +0.02%, USD 14.79m

The upward trend continued in Lagos with the financial sector appreciating 1.06% while the consumers declined 0.92%, the industrials and oil and gas following suit at 0.89% and 1.20% respectively and insurance sector advanced 0.70%. The major movers and shakers on the bourse were GTB (+1.59%, N48.00), FBNH (+2.76%, N11.15), NB (-2.73%, N124.50), Custodian (unch, N4.00) and a new comer to the top five CCNN (-4.32%, N17.70).

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

Zimbabwe: Market closed for the day.

African Currencies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE

 

 

CURRENCIES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Country

Index

21-Feb-18

YTD %

 

 

Country

Notation

21-Feb-18

YTD %

 

 

Botswana

DCI

8717.46

-1.61%

 

 

Botswana

BWP

9.51

3.54

 

 

Egypt

CASE 30

15244.49

1.47%

 

 

Egypt

EGP

17.71

0.57

 

 

Kenya

NSE 20

3730.24

0.69%

 

 

Ghana

GHS

4.47

0.70

 

 

Malawi

MASI

22807.90

5.60%

 

 

Kenya

KES

101.55

1.61

 

 

Mauritius

SEMDEX

2290.81

4.03%

 

 

Morocco

MAD

9.20

1.34

 

 

 

SEM 10

437.81

3.79%

 

 

Mauritius

MUR

32.54

3.19

 

 

Nigeria

NSI

42158.32

10.18%

 

 

Nigeria

NGN

359.79

0.06

 

 

Tanzania

TSI

3869.62

-1.27%

 

 

Rwanda

RWF

857.50

-0.41

 

 

Rwanda

RSI

133.21

-1.60%

 

 

Tunisia

TND

2.40

2.41

 

 

Uganda

USE ALSI

2074.00

4.87%

 

 

Tanzania

TZS

2,249.47

-0.66

 

 

Zambia

LUSE All Share

5582.63

4.79%

 

 

Uganda

UGX

3,633.92

0.26

 

 

Zimbabwe

Industrial Index

296.58

-9.04%

 

 

BRVM

XOF

539.53

4.57

 

 

 

Mining Index

130.42

-8.43%

 

 

South Africa

ZAR

11.64

6.34

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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