Movers & Shakers: May 05, 2017

Botswana: DCI +0.06%, USD 1.8m

Once again it was all local in Gaborone. Today was the turn of FNBB (280t) which accounted for almost the entire day’s turnover.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.08%, USD 4.3m

A quiet end to the week in Kenya. And yet again the volumes were heavily dominated by Safcom with the telco gaining another 51bps to KES19.75. There was also some late action in EABL (-43bps, KES233.00). There were no other trades worth mentioning.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.10%, USD 606k

A muted end to a muted week. There were no exceptionally large trades to write home about. In economic news, the Key Repo Rate was left unchanged at 4.00%.

Nigeria: ASI +0.26%, USD 9.4m

Once again the most notable trend in the market was foreign buyers of banks while selling was predominantly local. Banks also dominated the turnover charts while the sector gained 34bps. As usual, the bulk of the action went through in Zenith Bank (+1.57%, N16.18) and GTB (unch, N26.70). Consumers ended the day where they started on quiet volumes. There was also a large cross (both sides local) in Oando.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +1.18%, USD 588k

The lion’s share of today’s action went through in Delta (88.24c) while the rest of the market was largely quiet.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.59

1.11

Nigeria

NGN

316.49

-0.37

Kenya

KES

103.10

-0.57

Mauritius

MUR

34.64

3.84

Botswana

BWP

10.53

1.71

Tanzania

TZS

2235.20

-2.42

Uganda

UGX

3629.79

-0.92

Rwanda

RWF

839.25

-2.06

Ghana

GHS

4.22

0.36

BRVM

XOF

599.90

5.50

Egypt

EGP

18.13

0.06

Morocco

MAD

9.87

2.61

Tunisia

TND

2.42

-4.36
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