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Movers & Shakers: May 05, 2015
Botswana: DCI +1.49%, USD 963k
A better day from a turnover point of view as BIHL, Letshego and Turnstar were the most actively traded names.
Kenya: NSE 20 +0.30%, USD 5.9m
The market recouped its eves losses to close up by 0.30%. Foreign investors dominated proceedings (accounted for 54.8% of turnover) as they were mainly net buyers in most names. KCB (-0.8%, KES62), Safcom (+0.3%, KES17.50) and Equity Bank (-1%, KES49) were the most actively traded counters. The most notable laggard was TransCentury as the counter closed down 8.1% at KES 14.15 on the back of 10.5k shares traded.
Mauritius: Semdex -0.11%, USD 500k
Turnover was mainly skewed towards MCBG (accounted for 71% of turnover) The counter closed the day up by 0.5% at Rs202.50 on the back 581k shares traded. SBM was once again the most actively traded name as the counter closed unchanged at Rs0.93 after trading a total of 26.9m shares. Other movers included Ciel (+0.3%, Rs6.82), Terra (+1.0%, Rs31.10) and Lux (0.9%, Rs58.50).
Nigeria: ASI -0.14%, USD 21.4m
During the early stages of the session a significant cross went through in Nestle (1m shares at N1,034). The counter closed the day down by 1.50% (N935.75) after trading a total of 1.9m shares. The Consumer index closed the day soft after shedding 0.70% due to losses in the likes of Guinness (-0.59%, N169), Nestle and NB (0.63%, N157). The Banking index had a better day, closing up by 0.30% despite recording losses in most names. The most actively traded names were GTB (0.87%, N28.60), UBA (unch, N5.22), Zenith Bank (-0.28%, N21.30), Nestle and Seplat (-0.02%, N379).
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.30%, USD 1.7m
Healthy turnover was attributed by trades in Delta, Econet and Seedco trading a total of 810k, 503k and 545k shares to close at 105c, 48.5c and 93.99c respectively.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
11.95 |
-3.28 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
199.03 |
-7.83 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
95.07 |
-4.71 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
34.90 |
-9.03 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.80 |
-3.14 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1955.00 |
-11.36 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
2995.00 |
-7.48 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
692.99 |
-0.46 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.87 |
-16.92 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
588.75 |
-7.92 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.57 |
-5.63 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9.71 |
-6.61 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.91 |
-2.71 |
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