Movers & Shakers: July 17, 2015

Botswana: DCI -0.55%, USD 4.67m

Today was all about Choppies with a large foreign-foreign cross going through at 454t. There was also some smaller action in Sefalana (1250t).

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.81%, USD 7.8m

Market activity was once again heavily dependent on the large cap names while foreign participants remain heavily active. EABL witnessed some chunky foreign crosses as the name closed at KES285 (+70bps). Safcom fell by a further 70bps to KES15.15. Amongst the banks we saw KNCB increase by 90bps to KES54.50 while Equity Bank fell by 60bps to KES45.00.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.02%, USD 1.08m

The index never really found any direction today on relatively muted volumes. Both MCBG (Rs211.75) and SBMH (Rs0.87) closed the day unchanged.

Nigeria: Closed today

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.05%, USD 2.19m

A much better day as turnover amounted to $2.19m thanks to crosses in Delta ($1.04m), Econet ($597k) and Seedco ($306k) while the market closed lower with the Industrial Index falling -0.05%.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.34

-6.26

Nigeria

NGN

199.00

-7.81

Kenya

KES

102.45

-11.57

Mauritius

MUR

35.63

-10.88

Botswana

BWP

9.90

+4.58

Tanzania

TZS

2160.00

-19.77

Uganda

UGX

3325.00

-16.66

Rwanda

RWF

741.36

-6.95

Ghana

GHS

3.31

-2.79

BRVM

XOF

606.57

-10.63

Egypt

EGP

7.83

-8.70

Morocco

MAD

9.89

-8.22

Tunisia

TND

1.97

-5.73
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