Movers & Shakers: May 25, 2016


Botswana: DCI -0.04%, USD 379k

A little bit of activity in Letshego as 816k shares changed hands in the name the only action worth noting on a rather average day.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.42%, USD 8.4m

Some decent action in Nairobi today with foreign buying and local selling the most evident trends ahead of tomorrow’s KNCB results. The banks were by far the two most actively traded stocks. Equity Bank fell by 1.2% to KES39.75 thanks to a chunky cross (local seller, foreign buyer) while KNCB fell by 3.2% to KES39.25. There was also some two-way in Safcom (-60bps, KES17.25).

Mauritius: Semdex -0.03%, USD 410k

A rather uneventful day in Port Louis with nothing much to report on.

Nigeria: ASI +3.78%, USD 17.5m

An active day with local buying the main story doing the rounds. Banks were pushed up a hefty 5.89% with most names closing at or close to limit up. There was some decent action in names like GTB (+3.81%, N20.97), Zenith (+10.07%, N16.51) and FBNH (+5.28%, N3.99). Consumers followed suit by gaining 3.29% although outside of NB (+5.0%, N133.99) the sector was quiet. DangCem also saw some action and closed at N177.00 (+4.11%).

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

Zimbabwe: Closed or the day.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

15.68

-1.36

Nigeria

NGN

199.05

0.13

Kenya

KES

100.57

1.72

Mauritius

MUR

35.33

1.47

Botswana

BWP

11.20

0.22

Tanzania

TZS

2191.10

-1.91

Uganda

UGX

3385.00

-0.38

Rwanda

RWF

793.00

-6.05

Ghana

GHS

3.87

-1.68

BRVM

XOF

597.25

3.56

Egypt

EGP

8.88

-11.81

Morocco

MAD

9.76

1.91

Tunisia

TNF

2.09

-2.04

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