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Movers & Shakers: January 16, 2015
Botswana: DCI -0.03%, USD 145k
Absolutely nothing to report on today.
Kenya: NSE 20 +0.04%, USD 7.1m
A solid enough day to end the week in Nairobi as turnover increased to $7.1m with foreigners dominating proceedings. EQBNK (+1.0%) was the most active name on the day as 4.83m shares traded in the name with foreigners dominating both sides after news that Norfinance is to buy 12.2% of the company. There was also some action in KNCB and Safcom as 2.08m shares and 5.71m shares traded in the names respectively.
Mauritius: Semdex -0.06%, USD 470k
Dark clouds continue to hover over the Port Louis as indices close in the red. The notable gainer of the day was MCBG (+0.5%) closing at Rs196 on a meager 490 shares, while SBM maintained its weekly trend to close at Rs1.01 on a total of 396.4k shares traded.
Nigeria: ASI +0.78%, USD 15.5m
Strength in the banks was the most notable point to take out of todays session despite very quiet volumes across the board. Banks gained 2.89% with good performance in the likes of Zenith (+5%, N16.48), GTB (+2.17%, N17.90) and Access (+3.85%, N5.12). The consumers closed up 18bps despite weakness on big volumes in NB (-71bps, N139.00) and Guinness (-1.52%, N130.00). There was outperformance in UACN (+9.28%, N30.98) and Flourmills (+5%, N35.64).
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.64%, USD 1.08m
Seedco closed the day strong on the back of 701,523 shares traded at 100c. Other gainers were Innscor (+5.3%) trading 303,114 shares to close at a price of 57c, Delta (+0.9%) traded 20,869 shares to close at 109c and Seedco registered the highest number of shares, 701,523 in total closing at 18c.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
11.57 |
+0.04 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
186.65 |
-1.71 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
91.50 |
-0.98 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
32.40 |
-2.01 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.56 |
-0.71 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1773.50 |
-2.28 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
2885.00 |
-3.95 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
690.50 |
-0.10 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.27 |
-1.75 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
570.98 |
-5.03 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.14 |
+0.05 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9.41 |
-3.62 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.91 |
-2.78 |
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