Movers & Shakers: May 22, 2015

Botswana: DCI unch, USD 51.8k

Barely anything happened in the market today as 3 counters in total registered trades.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.99%, USD 5.4m

Another lukewarm session on the Kenyan bourse as foreigners accounted for 66.1% of the selling activity. Top movers Safaricom (-0.6%, KES16.20), NMG (-3.3%, N205), Equity Bank (-1.6%, KES46.75), KCB (-0.8%, KES59.50) and Britam (-2.3%, KES21.50) all closed soft on the back of foreign selling whilst EABL weathered the storm to close up 0.3% at KES301.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.31%, USD 710k

MCB and SBM closed the week unchanged at Rs205 and Rs0.95 after trading a total of 43.6k and 403.8k shares respectively. CIEL continued its rise to close up by 5.7% at Rs7.40 as 18.8k shares were exchanged in the name.

Nigeria: ASI -0.54%, USD 10.3m

An uneventful week has finally come to a close as the bourse continues its downward trend. The Banking index retreated 0.54% as all tier 1 banking names closed the week in the red- ETI was the exception to close unchanged at N21.70. Large cap consumers Guinness and NB closed soft after shedding 1.47% and 0.45% to settle at N155.72 and N153.28 respectively- Consumer index lost 0.50%.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.59%, USD 300k

Econet and Hippo were the most actively traded names in the session as the counters traded a total of 200k and 250k shares respectively. 8 counters in total recorded trades.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.86

-2.44

Nigeria

NGN

199.05

-7.84

Kenya

KES

96.80

-6.40

Mauritius

MUR

35.30

-10.06

Botswana

BWP

9.77

-2.52

Tanzania

TZS

2052.00

-15.55

Uganda

UGX

2995.00

-7.48

Rwanda

RWF

690.50

-0.10

Ghana

GHS

4.02

-19.96

BRVM

XOF

597.50

-9.26

Egypt

EGP

7.62

-6.22

Morocco

MAD

9.79

-7.44

Tunisia

TND

1.95

-4.61
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