Movers & Shakers: July 26, 2017

Botswana: DCI -1.36%, USD 894k

Some action in Botswana Telecommunications Corporations Limited ($214k), Primetime ($245k) and Stanchart ($270k) being the main highlights today.

Kenya: NSE 20 +1.0%, USD 7.5m

Turnover dropped to by 38% from the previous day. The most active names on the day were SAFCOM (+1.1%), EABL (+1.1%) and BRIT (+8.3%) which were 33%, 28% and 16% of turnover respectively. Foreign participation on the day dropped to 29% from 57% the previous day.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.08%, USD 840k

MCBG (unch, Rs274.00) together with POLICY (unch, Rs6.64) accounted for 52% of turnover. SBMH (-1.3%, Rs7.8) was pretty quiet on the bourse today.

Nigeria: ASI +3.40%, USD 14.7m

The market has rallied for 15 consecutive sessions even though volumes were lower than the previous day. All indices were up with the banks leading the gains (+3.72%) as some decent action was seen in Guaranty (+4.99%, N39.58) and Zenith Bank (+6.67%, N25.60). Industrials were supported by the continuous rise in Dangcem, which closed at a 3-year high of 245.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.53%, USD 807k

The index clipped higher today while the turnover was slightly lower with Econet (+2.4%) and Delta (+0.01%) accounting for approximately 50% of turnover.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.03

5.45

Nigeria

NGN

318.48

-0.99

Kenya

KES

103.90

-1.34

Mauritius

MUR

33.65

6.89

Botswana

BWP

10.19

4.91

Tanzania

TZS

2226.50

-2.04

Uganda

UGX

3603.50

-0.19

Rwanda

RWF

845.50

-2.78

Ghana

GHS

4.39

-3.42

BRVM

XOF

567.43

11.01

Egypt

EGP

17.92

1.24

Morocco

MAD

9.50

6.27

Tunisia

TND

2.44

-5.52
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