Movers & Shakers: June 05, 2015


Botswana: DCI +0.01%, USD 5.3m

An above average day on the bourse as turnover amounted to a respectable $5.3m. Stanchart accounted for the bulk of activity as the counter traded a total of 4m shares to close unchanged at 1265t. The rest of the market was dead.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.22%, USD 2.8m

Turnover took a slump today, falling by 49.8%- the lowest since Jan of this year. Top movers of the day included Safaricom (-0.6%, KES16.35), NSE (unch, KES21) and EABL (-0.3%, KES315) – accounted for 30.8% of turnover. The market saw a decrease in foreign participation as most investors are still awaiting the announcement of the rate change by the MPC. Other notable movers included Co-op bank and KCB which closed at KES21.75 (+1.2%) and KES59 (-0.8%) respectively.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.16%, USD 1.5m

After an active day MCB traded a total of 2.2k shares to close unchanged at Rs207. SBM was the best performing stock of the day as the counter traded a total of 38m shares on the back of several crosses to close unchanged at Rs0.94.

Nigeria: ASI +0.59%, USD 12.4m

Yet another really quiet day in Lagos as nothing ever got going. Banks, however, finally found some buying interest after having an awful time of late. The sector gained 1.82% with all Tier 1 names closing in the green for a change. Outperformance was led by Zenith bank (+3.74%, N19.97) and GTB (+2.23%, N27.50). Consumers gained a marginal 6bps with action in NB (-1bp, N147.99) about the only trading worth noting.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.10%, USD 410k

The market did its normal song and dance this week as disinterest continues even in the large cap names. No trades were recorded in Delta whilst other movers included BAT, Econet and Innscor.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.55

-7.82

Nigeria

NGN

199.00

-7.81

Kenya

KES

96.90

-6.50

Mauritius

MUR

35.22

-9.87

Botswana

BWP

10.06

-5.76

Tanzania

TZS

2170.00

-20.14

Uganda

UGX

3077.00

-9.94

Rwanda

RWF

694.99

-0.75

Ghana

GHS

4.14

-22.42

BRVM

XOF

592.91

-8.57

Egypt

EGP

7.62

-6.25

Morocco

MAD

9.75

-6.92

Tunisia

TND

1.94

-4.39

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