Movers & Shakers: May 11, 2015


Botswana: DCI +0.42%, USD 1.1m

Top movers included FNBB, Letshego, Sefelana and BIHL.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.56%, USD 11.8m

The general trend continued in the market today with foreigners dominating proceedings- accounted for 62.3% of activity. Foreigners were net sellers in Safaricom causing the name to close down by 0.9% at KES16.90 whilst Co-op bank closed up 1.2% on the back of foreign buying. Top movers included Equity bank (+0.5%, KES46.75), Diamond Trust (unch, KES240) and Bamburi (-2.7%, KES146).

Mauritius: Semdex -0.50%, USD 35.3m

In April, monthly tourist arrivals increased by 2.2%. Large domestic off board crosses were registered in MCBG (2.5m at Rs203.50) and SBM (349.7m at Rs0.9233) and another 173m shares crossed at Rs0.93. CEIL also registered a cross (3.5m shares at Rs6.60). The counters closed the day at Rs203 (-0.1%), Rs0.93 (-1.1%) and Rs6.90 (unchanged) respectively. LUX gained 0.4% to close at Rs58.75 after trading a total of 1.5m shares

Nigeria: ASI -0.13%, USD 11.8m

The downward trend continued in the market today with activity remaining below desired levels. The Banking index lost 0.96% on the back of losses in ETI (-4.98%, N23.27), FBN (-1.65%, N8.95) and Zenith Bank (-1.41%, N20.96). Gains in NB (+2.21%, N156.90), Flourmills (+4.70%, N36.95) and Dangsugar (+1.56%, N6.50) resulted in a strong close in the Consumer index (+0.82%). Major sector laggards included Intbrew (-2.06%, N20) and Guinness (-3.46%, N155). Significant contributors included Zenith Bank ($5.4m), GTB ($712k) and NB ($894k).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.27%, USD 2.8m

Delta, Econet and Meikles accounted for the bulk of activity today. The counters traded a total of 500k, 4.3m and 5.1m shares to close at 105c (unchanged), 46c (-1.05%) and 7c (17.65%) respectively. A total of 6 stocks registered trades in todays session.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.02

-3.76

Nigeria

NGN

198.30

-7.49

Kenya

KES

95.90

-5.53

Mauritius

MUR

35.15

-9.67

Botswana

BWP

9.80

-3.09

Tanzania

TZS

1983.80

-12.64

Uganda

UGX

3003.00

-7.73

Rwanda

RWF

722.56

-4.53

Ghana

GHS

3.88

-17.07

BRVM

XOF

591.39

-8.34

Egypt

EGP

7.61

-6.08

Morocco

MAD

9.71

-6.60

Tunisia

TND

1.92

-3.27

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