Movers & Shakers: June 19, 2017


Botswana: DCI +0.04%, USD 652k

Nothing overly exciting to note bar some local trades in Barclays (590t) and G4S (400t).

Kenya: NSE 20 +1.17%, USD 3.95m

An extremely quiet start to the week in Kenya. The only stock that saw any modicum of activity was KNCB which slipped by 2.7% to KES36.00. Safcom was unusually dull and also fell, the telco lost 2.13% to close at KES23.00. The rest of the market was quiet.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.24%, USD 1.56m

Once again the Mauritian bourse was heavily dominated by MCBG as the banking giant hit yet another all-time high (Rs257.00, +70bps). The rest of the market was uneventful.

Nigeria: ASI +0.96%, USD 18.0m

Another positive day in Lagos as both the Banks (+51bps) and Consumers (+65bps) outperformed. The bulk of today’s action went through in GTB (+76bps, N36.00) thanks to multiple crosses in the name. The other bank to see decent action was ETI which closed up 7.12% at N15.35. In the consumers the bulk of the trading took place in NB (+61bps, N165.00). DangCem also saw some chunky trading as the market heavyweight closed 2.44% higher at N210.00.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.56%, USD 429k

Locals continue to push the ZSE higher although today we saw a much slower increase than we have witnessed in recent sessions. The market was also much more subdued than normal.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.96

6.04

Nigeria

NGN

325.00

-2.98

Kenya

KES

103.57

-1.02

Mauritius

MUR

34.78

3.44

Botswana

BWP

10.20

4.06

Tanzania

TZS

2237.00

-2.50

Uganda

UGX

3588.63

0.22

Rwanda

RWF

844.00

-2.61

Ghana

GHS

4.41

-3.86

BRVM

XOF

588.75

6.99

Egypt

EGP

18.10

0.23

Morocco

MAD

9.78

3.54

Tunisia

TND

2.48

-6.77

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