Movers & Shakers: March 16, 2018


Botswana: DCI unch, USD 2k

An absolutely dire day in Gaborone.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.9%, USD 6.5m

The Kenyan market closed the week in the green while volumes declined by 21% to close at USD 6.5m on the day. The big 4 dominated the action, all accounting for a total of 75% of turnover.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.05%, USD 3.26m

The Semdex strengthened with Rs108m changing hands geared towards GRIT unmoved at Rs1.45 accounting for 62% of total market turnover. NMH was little changed at Rs24.50, SBM treading lightly with a modest Rs7.66, Ciel was at Rs7.52 up 0.3% and ENL ending the session at Rs43.50 retreating 0.9%.

Nigeria: ASI -0.59%, USD 19.72m

It was a negative close to the week in Nigeria, with only the Industrials closing higher on the day, while the Banks (-2.33%) once again lost the most. Zenith Bank and Guaranty topped the turnover, accounting for 54% of total market turnover.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.07%, USD 442k

A massive decline from yesterday’s activity, relatively speaking, in Harare with Barclays ($157k) accounting for 36% of the market turnover at 4.40c. PPC ($94k) trading at 94.00c and the only other name worth a mention was Econet ($81k) sitting flat at 67.70c.

African Currencies

                       
 

AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE

   

CURRENCIES

 
                       
 

Country

Index

16-Mar-18

YTD %

   

Country

Notation

16-Mar-18

YTD %

 
 

Botswana

DCI

8 680.01

-2.03%

   

Botswana

BWP

9.60

2.56

 
 

Egypt

CASE 30

16 999.10

13.15%

   

Egypt

EGP

17.62

1.09

 
 

Kenya

NSE 20

3 801.79

2.63%

   

Ghana

GHS

4.41

2.12

 
 

Malawi

MASI

24 825.04

14.94%

   

Kenya

KES

101.30

1.86

 
 

Mauritius

SEMDEX

2 307.82

4.80%

   

Morocco

MAD

9.19

1.50

 
   

SEM 10

438.77

4.02%

   

Mauritius

MUR

33.17

1.23

 
 

Morocco

MASI

13 211.53

6.56%

   

Nigeria

NGN

359.92

0.02

 
 

Nigeria

NSI

41 935.90

9.59%

   

Rwanda

RWF

851.52

0.29

 
 

Tanzania

TSI

3 923.33

0.10%

   

Tunisia

TND

2.44

0.68

 
 

Rwanda

RSI

134.02

-1.00%

   

Tanzania

TZS

2 252.43

-0.79

 
 

Uganda

USE ALSI

2 124.36

7.42%

   

Uganda

UGX

3 655.00

-0.32

 
 

Zambia

LUSE All Share

5 586.64

4.86%

   

BRVM

XOF

543.64

3.78

 
 

Zimbabwe

Industrial Index

288.48

-11.52%

   

South Africa

ZAR

11.93

3.74

 
   

Mining Index

122.73

-13.83%

   

Zimbabwe

*OMIR

1.56

0.06

 
             

*Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate

   

 

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