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.
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.
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.
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.
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Index |
21-Feb-18 |
YTD % |
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Country |
Notation |
21-Feb-18 |
YTD % |
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Botswana |
DCI |
8717.46 |
-1.61% |
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Botswana |
BWP |
9.51 |
3.54 |
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Egypt |
CASE 30 |
15244.49 |
1.47% |
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Egypt |
EGP |
17.71 |
0.57 |
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Kenya |
NSE 20 |
3730.24 |
0.69% |
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Ghana |
GHS |
4.47 |
0.70 |
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Malawi |
MASI |
22807.90 |
5.60% |
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Kenya |
KES |
101.55 |
1.61 |
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Mauritius |
SEMDEX |
2290.81 |
4.03% |
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Morocco |
MAD |
9.20 |
1.34 |
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SEM 10 |
437.81 |
3.79% |
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Mauritius |
MUR |
32.54 |
3.19 |
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Nigeria |
NSI |
42158.32 |
10.18% |
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Nigeria |
NGN |
359.79 |
0.06 |
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Tanzania |
TSI |
3869.62 |
-1.27% |
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Rwanda |
RWF |
857.50 |
-0.41 |
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Rwanda |
RSI |
133.21 |
-1.60% |
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Tunisia |
TND |
2.40 |
2.41 |
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Uganda |
USE ALSI |
2074.00 |
4.87% |
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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 |
3,633.92 |
0.26 |
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Zimbabwe |
Industrial Index |
296.58 |
-9.04% |
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BRVM |
XOF |
539.53 |
4.57 |
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Mining Index |
130.42 |
-8.43% |
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South Africa |
ZAR |
11.64 |
6.34 |
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