Movers & Shakers: February 07, 2012

Botswana: DCI +0.31%, Vols USD 1m

The Gaborone bourse witnessed increased activity today, with approx USD1m exchanging hands today. Turnstar was the day's top trader with 2,718,448 shares trading in the name at 128t, accounting for 44% of the day's turnover. Barcalys contributed to 35% of the turnover with 390,700 shares trading 20t higher at 710t. Primetime and Turnstar added on 3t each to 185t and 128t respectively. Letshego ended 1t lower at 139t, Letlole was also down 1t at 114t. Wil gave-up 30t at 340t.

BRVM: BRVM Comp +0.24%, BRVM 10 +0.28%, Vols USD 164k

The BRVM Comp and the BRVM 10 edged up 0.24% and 0.28% to 142.30pts and 164.54pts respectively. PalmCI led the gainers, closing 7.49% higher at XOF18,165. Total CI added on 2.82% to XOF 73,000 while SAPH CI inched up by 0.25% at XOF 42,105. Uniwax CI closed 7.46% in the red at XOF8,750. SOFB CI was down 2.59% at XOF 56,500 and Bernabe CI lost 0.02% at XOF 26,000.

Egypt: EGX 30 +1.00%, Vols USD 68m

The market managed to end the day in positive territories, leaving the EGX30 to end the day up 1.00%, to close at 4583.89 points. Volumes continue to trade within resent market volumes, market traded a total turnover of USD 68m. The market started the day with a negative sentiment to reach a low of 4503.30 points, yet after an hour of trading the market changed its trading sentiment to trade positively to reach a high of 4583.89 points. Local retail who have been relatively bearish over the past couple of weeks, continue to be net-buyers along with local institutions and Arab investors.

Investor mix:
•  Foreigners were net Sellers by 97.92 mn EGP and were 25.94% of the market.
•  Egyptians were net Buyers by 80.38 mn EGP and were 69.31% of the market.
•  Arabs were net Buyers by 17.53 mn EGP and were 4.76% of the market.
•  Institutions were net Sellers by 47.37 mn EGP and were 41.68% of the market.
•  Retail were net Buyers by 47.37 mn EGP and were 58.31% of the market.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.02%, Vols USD 1.6m

Turnover on the NSE ended the day 14.1% lower at USD 1.6m on the back of constrained liquidity. Bamburi was the day's top trader, with 307,500 shares trading in the name, accounting for 30% of the day's turnover. At an improved price of KES 173.00 (+1.8%), a total of 123,100 shares were traded on EABL. KCB Bank and Equity Bank ended the day higher at KES 19.30 (+0.3%) and KES 17.45 (+0.6%) on volumes of 714,300 shares and 656,500 shares respectively.

Mauritius: Closed today

Nigeria: ASI -0.37%, Vols USD 14.53m

The Nigerian ASI fell 0.37% while value traded amounted to USD 14.53m. Top traded stocks were First Bank, UBA, Access Bank, Transcorp, Zenith Bank, Courtville Business Solutions Plc, Fidelity Bank, Vitafoam Nigeria Plc, Airline Services and Logistics Plc and GTB. Top losers of the day were Ikeja Hotel Plc (-4.93%), Japaul Oil (-4.88%), E-Tranzact International Plc (-4.86%, Airline Services and Logistics Plc (-4.83%) and Honeywell Flour Mill (-4.76%. The gainers were led by Oando Plc (4.97%), Eterna Oil (4.81%), Presco Plc (4.71%), RT Briscoe (4.35%) and Unity Bank (4.00%). The banking sector ASI closed down 59bps. First Bank closed down 1.81% at N10.32 and traded 23.25m units while UBA closed flat at N2.00 trading 22.62m units. Access Bank closed up 3.26% at N5.70 and traded 17.37m units. The sector also had crosses of 8.7m units of First Bank, 11.4m units of UBA, 10.9m units of Access Bank, 2.1m units of Ecobank Transnational Incorporation, 1.5m units Zenith Bank and 6m units of Fidelity Bank. In the building materials sector, Cement Company of Northern Nigeria closed flat at N4.90 and traded 18k units while Lafarge Wapco also closed flat at N45.17 and traded 153k units. Dangote Cement closed up 0.03% at N116 and traded 1.19m units in total. In the food and beverages sector, Nigerian Breweries closed up 0.09% at N94.09 and traded 3.81m units while Dangote Sugar closed flat at N4.80 with 7.85m units traded. Guinness closed flat at N220 trading 2.31m units. The sector also had a cross of 7m units of Dangote Sugar. There were also crosses of 3.1m units of Livestock Feeds, 9.9m units of Transcorp, 8.7m units of Airline Service and Logistics, 2.4m units of PZ Cussons, 10m units of Courtville Business Solutions Plc and 7.5m units of Vitafoam Plc.

South Africa: Top 40 -0.66%, Vols USD 1.74bn

The JSE ended the day lower with the Top 40 Index falling 0.66% to close at 30,297 while value traded amounted to USD 1.74bn. Resources were the day's biggest losers with the Index falling 1.28% followed by Industrials which fell 0.39% while Financials gained 0.32%. The Rand was trading at 7.58 and 9.99 to the USD and EUR respectively by the time local markets closed.

Zambia: LuSE -0.99%, Vols USD 18k

The market recorded a turnover of USD 18k. The counters that traded today included AELZ, SCBL, ZABR and ZSUG. The biggest contributor towards turnover was AELZ, 22,170 shares traded at an average price of ZMK 4,000, turnover amounted to USD 17,736. The second biggest contributor towards turnover was SCBL, 45,309 shares traded at an average price of ZMK 85.57, turnover amounted to USD 775.

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.12%, Mining +0.80%, Vols USD 1.5m

The industrial index ended the day +0.12% higher at 140.44pts whilst the mining index rebounded +0.80% to 81.89pts. Delta traded 1.45% higher at 70c with 985,327 shares trading in the name. 103,465 shares traded in Econet 1.35% at 364.99c. Twenty stocks recorded price movements with gainers dominating at eleven stocks against nine shakers to help drive the market northwards. Top performing for the day was African Sun that put on +7.06% to 0.91c whilst Natfoods gained 5c or +5.56% to 95c. Other gains were seen in AICO that put on +0.765 to 18.1c on strong demand, OKZIM closed 1.1% firmer at 10.21c and Innscor that rose +0.18% to 56.6c. Counters to lose were topped by financial services group Trust that shed -19.2% to 0.8c, whilst ZHL followed down -13.04% at 1c. Cable manufacturers Cafca who are set to hold their AGM later this month came off -9.1% to 50c and Fidelity that traded 5% softer at 17.10c.