Movers & Shakers: June 10, 2015


Botswana: DCI +0.10%, USD 995k

Turnover took a slump today as the top contributors included Barclays, Choppies , FNBB and Turnstar.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.02%, USD 6.8m

KCB, Equity Bank and Safaricom accounted for 63.9% of total market activity. Foreigners were mainly net sellers in the session- selling activity was mainly skewed towards BAT and Safaricom. The latter closed the day unchanged at KES16.05 after trading a total of 7.3m shares. Equity Bank and BAT declined by 0.5% and 0.3% to close at KES46.75 and KES701 respectively.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.01%, USD 1.7m

SBM shed 1.1% to close at Rs0.93 despite trading 17.1m shares whilst it’s banking counterpart MCB closed 0.2% higher at Rs208.50 after trading a total of 158k shares – counters accounted for 80.3% of total turnover. NMH and Ciel closed the day in the green as the counters traded a total of 22.6k and 378k shares to close at Rs21.50 and Rs7.20 respectively. Monthly tourist’s arrivals have increased by 8.9% from Jan to May ’14 to ’15.

Nigeria: ASI -0.09%, USD 20.6m

A better day in Lagos but still nothing to write home about as turnover increased to $20.6m thanks to crosses in GTB ($3.77m), UBA ($3.77m), WAPCO ($2.56m), Zenith ($1.97m) and NB ($1.65m). Banks closed the day lower with the sector falling -1.57% as Zenith (-3.23%) and GTB (-1.63%) came under pressure. Consumers (+0.48%) closed higher thanks to PZ Cussons (+4.99%) and GSK (+2.00%).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.37%, USD 157k

Another slow day on the bourse as only 11 counters registered trades. Top movers included Econet (-2.27%, 43c), CBZ (+40%, 9.81c) and Meikles (unch, 7.50c).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.33

-6.19

Nigeria

NGN

198.90

-7.77

Kenya

KES

97.10

-6.69

Mauritius

MUR

35.02

-9.35

Botswana

BWP

9.93

-4.19

Tanzania

TZS

2185.20

-20.69

Uganda

UGX

3135.00

-11.61

Rwanda

RWF

691.50

-0.24

Ghana

GHS

4.26

-24.56

BRVM

XOF

583.00

-7.02

Egypt

EGP

7.62

-6.22

Morocco

MAD

9.64

-5.90

Tunisia

TND

1.93

-3.49

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