Movers & Shakers: January 18, 2017

Botswana: DCI -0.03%, USD 7.6m

A massive cross in Imara on the venture capital board helped boost activity as 35.9m shares changed hands in the name. Elsewhere, there was some small activity in Turnstar (1.2m shares) while the rest of the market was dead quiet.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.10%, USD 9.9m

Finally some life on the Kenyan market as chunky crosses (foreign-foreign) in both Safcom and EABL spiced up proceedings. Safcom accounted for more than half the total turnover with the telco finally rising by 60bps to KES 18.05. EABL closed unchanged at KES 220.00. The rest of the market was once again extremely dull.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.09%, USD 950k

MCBG as per usual was the only shining light in terms of activity as 56k shares changed hands in the name while there was sporadic activity in some of the heavyweight stocks, but nothing worth noting.

Nigeria: ASI -0.13%, USD 4.3m

Another day of nothingness as interest in the bourse continues to drift along with absolutely no direction. Banks slipped by a mere 10bps with nothing really trading except for some mild action in Zenith (-19bps, N15.80). Consumers also dropped (19bps) but the sector was incredibly dry.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.21%, USD 405k

A slow day in Harare with Innscor ($240k) and Delta ($126k) driving proceedings.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.54

1.46

Nigeria

NGN

315.69

-0.11

Kenya

KES

103.90

-1.34

Mauritius

MUR

35.89

0.23

Botswana

BWP

10.58

0.96

Tanzania

TZS

2225.50

-2.00

Uganda

UGX

3606.00

-0.26

Rwanda

RWF

816.71

0.65

Ghana

GHS

4.28

-1.05

BRVM

XOF

618.04

1.92

Egypt

EGP

18.80

-3.52

Morocco

MAD

10.04

0.85

Tunisia

TNF

2.31

0.15
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