Movers & Shakers: May 12, 2015

Botswana: DCI unch, USD 2.9m

Another active day on the bourse as turnover amounted to $2.9m. Letshego was the significant contributor as the counter traded a total of 7.6m shares at 350t. Other movers included FNBB and Sefalana.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.59%, USD 13.7m

The bourse remains sluggish with the index shedding 59bps. Foreigners were net sellers in KCB, Safaricom and Diamond bank as the counters shed 3.3%, 1.5% and 0.4% respectively. Equity bank closed up 1.6% on the back of sustained foreign demand.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.33%, USD 7.1m

Foreigners were the dominant participants in MCB and SBM- they were net sellers. The banking names remained unchanged at Rs203 and Rs0.93 after trading a total of 526k and 20.9m Shares respectively.

Nigeria: ASI -0.66%, USD 16.6m

There was no deviation from the recent trend as the market remains bearish. The Banking and Consumers indices ended the day in the red due to losses in ETI (-9.71%, N21.01) and FBNH (-2.79%, N8.70) banking sector shed 1.08% and NB (-2.15%, N153.53) and Flourmills (-3.92%, N35.50) consumer sector shed 0.87%. Top contributors included GTB ($1.1m) and UBA ($8.1m) with the names closing up by 0.31% (N29.12) and 1.58% (N5.13) respectively.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.12%, USD 411k

Trades in Delta, Econet and ZPI dominated proceedings. The counters traded 130k, 75k and 18m shares at 105c, 46c and 1.10c respectively.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.05

-4.05

Nigeria

NGN

199.25

-7.93

Kenya

KES

96.50

-6.11

Mauritius

MUR

35.07

-9.48

Botswana

BWP

9.84

-3.14

Tanzania

TZS

2008.00

-13.70

Uganda

UGX

2993.00

-7.42

Rwanda

RWF

712.60

-3.20

Ghana

GHS

3.88

-17.18

BRVM

XOF

586.04

-7.50

Egypt

EGP

7.62

-6.22

Morocco

MAD

9.68

-6.23

Tunisia

TND

1.92

-2.97
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