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Movers & Shakers: May 17, 2017


Botswana: DCI +0.01%, USD 160k

Nothing to report from Gaborone.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.20%, USD 13.3m

Another solid day on the activity front in Nairobi thanks to a large local cross in KNCB ($3.7m) with the banking giant closing the day +0.70% higher. There was also some solid action in Safcom ($2.3m) as the telco closed the day -1.20% lower on foreign selling. Elsewhere, there was finally some form of broad based activity in the market with a few crosses in the likes of BMBC ($1.6m), BATK ($1.1m) and EQBNK ($1.0m).

Mauritius: Semdex +0.28%, USD 1.8m

MCBG bounced back after a tough couple of days and rose by 80bps to Rs240.00 on decent volume. There was also some trading in SBMH (+30bps, Rs7.60) and ENL Land (+1.1%, Rs49.45).

Nigeria: ASI +1.05%, USD 11.0m

Things slowed down dramatically today with some action in GTB ($3m), Access ($2.2m) and NB ($1.2m) driving proceedings. Banking stocks (+1.71%) continued where they left off yesterday thanks to GTB (+4.07%) and Access (+2.93%). Consumers (+1.99%) also had a good day thanks to NB (+2.07%).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +2.11%, USD 2.2m

A rather active day in Harare with Econet dominating the charts. The name jumped up significantly to 24c on decent volume.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.21

4.04

Nigeria

NGN

324.28

-2.76

Kenya

KES

103.41

-0.87

Mauritius

MUR

34.80

3.37

Botswana

BWP

10.33

3.63

Tanzania

TZS

2226.10

-2.02

Uganda

UGX

3622.63

-0.72

Rwanda

RWF

840.50

-2.20

Ghana

GHS

4.31

-1.63

BRVM

XOF

594.58

5.95

Egypt

EGP

18.15

-0.02

Morocco

MAD

9.80

3.31

Tunisia

TND

2.43

-4.76

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