Movers & Shakers: May 20, 2016

Botswana: DCI -0.03%, USD 848k

Another decent day in Gaborone with today's action going through in Choppies (410t).

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.26%, USD 2.8m

A really dull end to what has been a very dull week. The only real action took place in Safcom (+30bps, KES17.35) and EqBnk (+60bps, KES40.50). The rest of the market was extremely quiet.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.43%, USD 490k

A quiet end to a quiet week in Mauritius. MCBG was again the most active stock and it softened by a further 50bps to Rs207.00.

Nigeria: ASI +0.37%, USD 17.9m

The ASI continued to grind higher although there was some slight profit taking in the banks (-33bps). The main action today was in Zenith (+1.79%, N15.95) with a number of chunky crosses going through. There was also good action in Access (unch, N5.35) and GTB (-3.67%, N20.20). Consumers ended the day slightly in the green with NB (+40bps, N126.00) driving activity.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -1.08%, USD 131k

An extremely quiet day with Delta tumbling down to 72.5c.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

15.71

-1.42

Nigeria

NGN

199.00

0.15

Kenya

KES

100.88

1.64

Mauritius

MUR

35.35

1.41

Botswana

BWP

11.22

0.00

Tanzania

TZS

2190.00

-1.86

Uganda

UGX

3350.00

0.66

Rwanda

RWF

777.06

-4.13

Ghana

GHS

3.84

-0.85

BRVM

XOF

593.40

4.26

Egypt

EGP

8.87

-11.76

Morocco

MAD

9.71

2.27

Tunisia

TNF

2.07

-1.51
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