Movers & Shakers: March 21, 2016


Botswana: DCI -0.03%, USD 26k

Nothing happened in Gaborone.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.20%, USD 4.5m

A quiet day in Kenya as foreign investors continue to be net sellers. There was some decent action in the banks with KNCB closing unchanged at KES41.25 while Equity Bank fell to KES39.75 (went ex-div). Safcom was quieter than it’s been in recent sessions and ticked slightly lower to KES16.45.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.23%, USD 600k

A quiet day in Port Louis. Nothing exciting to write home about.

Nigeria: ASI +0.81%, USD 10.3m

Another quiet day in Lagos which was not helped due to the holiday in South Africa. Local demand once again drove activity in the banks (+2.04%) with action, as always, focused on Zenith Bank (+3.13%, N13.19) and GTB (+4.53%, N16.38). The consumers fell by 1.75% although outside of NB (-95bps, N104.00) the sector was dead.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.07%, USD 356k

A quiet start to the week on the ZSE with no action in any of the large cap names.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

15.28

1.23

Nigeria

NGN

198.90

0.20

Kenya

KES

101.51

0.78

Mauritius

MUR

35.42

1.20

Botswana

BWP

11.09

1.28

Tanzania

TZS

2186.00

-1.68

Uganda

UGX

3364.00

0.24

Rwanda

RWF

775.71

-3.96

Ghana

GHS

3.85

-1.17

BRVM

XOF

590.88

4.68

Egypt

EGP

8.88

-11.84

Morocco

MAD

9.69

2.49

Tunisia

TNF

2.01

1.52

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