Movers & Shakers: July 27, 2016

Botswana: DCI -0.55%, USD 146k

A rather dull day in Gaborone with some small activity in Letshego the only name worth mentioning as 649k shares traded.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.53%, USD 7.7m

A rather average day in Nairobi as foreigners continue to dominate proceedings with a large foreign cross in the usually illiquid KenolKobil as 26.4m shares changed hands in the name. EQBNK (+3.3%) had a very strong day from a performance point of view thanks to foreign demand as 4.9m shares traded while KNCB closed the day -0.8% lower. Not much on the go in Safcom as 4.9m shares traded.

Mauritius: Semdex +1.00%, USD 1.2m

Some punchy buying in SBMH (+4.6%, Rs0.68) was the main driver of the market today although volumes in the name were still relatively small.

Nigeria: ASI +0.93%, USD 16m

A better day in Lagos but still wel below par from an activity point of view with crosses in GTB ($3.3m), DangCem ($2.7m), NB ($2.5m), Access ($2m) and UBA ($1.9m) driving proceedings. Banking stocks managed to close the day higher with the sector gaining +1.98% after MPC decided to increase the MPR to 14% yesterday. There were some good performances in GTB (+4.98%) and Zenith (+2.50%). Consumers (-1.60%) closed the day lower with NB (-4.46%) dragging the sector lower.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.01%, USD 155k

Another dull day in Harare with nothing of note to report back on.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

14.29

8.28

Nigeria

NGN

315.00

-36.73

Kenya

KES

101.35

0.94

Mauritius

MUR

35.55

0.84

Botswana

BWP

10.76

4.26

Tanzania

TZS

2188.00

-1.77

Uganda

UGX

3380.00

-0.24

Rwanda

RWF

787.81

-5.44

Ghana

GHS

3.97

-4.04

BRVM

XOF

604.28

2.35

Egypt

EGP

8.88

-11.86

Morocco

MAD

9.85

0.80

Tunisia

TNF

2.24

-8.83
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