The little volume the stock exchange experienced was divided mostly across a handful of names with Letshego ($24.33k) accounting for 75% of the market, Primetime ($4.16k) and Choppies ($1.65k) made up the rest of the volume.
The market closed the month in positive territory, with 3 of the big 4 closing significantly higher on the day. Safcom (+0.85%), EABL (Unch), KNCB (+2.72%) and Equity Bank (+3.16%) accounted for a total of 76% of turnover. Foreign participation was 50% on the day.
Another average day in Port Louis today, SBMH (unch, Rs7.60) and MCBG (+0.9%, Rs275) dominated the session accounting for 66% of turnover. Both the Semdex (+0.27%) and the Sem-10 (+0.37%) closed the day firmer.
It was a positive end to the month as the market seemed to come alive in the final hour of trading. Crosses in Nestle, Dangcem, Guaranty, Zenith and Access all accounted for 64% of the total market turnover.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
The Industrial Index recovered to close the day 0.62 points firmer with activity driven by Delta (+0.23, $1.58) accounting for 62% of turnover. There was also some activity in Econet ($195k)and Seedco ($140k).
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AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE |
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Index |
28-Feb-18 |
YTD % |
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Country |
Notation |
28-Feb-18 |
YTD % |
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Botswana |
DCI |
8,691.19 |
-1.91% |
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Botswana |
BWP |
9.55 |
3.05 |
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Egypt |
CASE 30 |
15,472.69 |
2.99% |
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Egypt |
EGP |
17.64 |
0.97 |
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Kenya |
NSE 20 |
3,750.75 |
1.25% |
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Ghana |
GHS |
4.46 |
1.12 |
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Malawi |
MASI |
23,182.59 |
7.34% |
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Kenya |
KES |
101.40 |
1.76 |
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Mauritius |
SEMDEX |
2,292.99 |
4.13% |
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Morocco |
MAD |
9.26 |
0.77 |
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SEM 10 |
438.28 |
3.90% |
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Mauritius |
MUR |
33.59 |
-0.05 |
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Morocco |
MASI |
13,196.32 |
6.44% |
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Nigeria |
NGN |
360.25 |
-0.07 |
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Nigeria |
NSI |
43,330.54 |
13.24% |
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Rwanda |
RWF |
854.00 |
0.00 |
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Tanzania |
TSI |
3,903.69 |
-0.40% |
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Tunisia |
TND |
2.42 |
1.60 |
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Rwanda |
RSI |
131.47 |
-2.89% |
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Tanzania |
TZS |
2,244.52 |
-0.44 |
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Uganda |
USE ALSI |
2,044.48 |
3.38% |
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Uganda |
UGX |
3,646.46 |
-0.06 |
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Zambia |
LUSE All Share |
5,586.64 |
4.86% |
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BRVM |
XOF |
545.36 |
3.45 |
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Zimbabwe |
Industrial Index |
294.55 |
-9.66% |
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South Africa |
ZAR |
11.76 |
5.30 |
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Mining Index |
124.91 |
-12.29% |
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Zimbabwe |
*OMIR |
1.49 |
0.20 |
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*Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate |
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