Another day of "nothingness" in Gaborone.
Another dull day in Nairobi as all the attentioned seemed to be focused on the Nigerian bourse with some action in Safcom ($2m) the only name worth mentioning from an activity point of view with the telco closing -2.3% lower on foreign selling pressure. Both EQBNK (+2.7%) and KNCB (+0.7%) closed the day higher on low volume.
MCB was extremely strong today as it rebounded by 2.5% to Rs248.00 and the banking group also accounted for the lion’s share of the trading volumes. The rest of the market was dull.
A very impressive day on the activity front in Lagos thanks to some chunky crosses in the likes of GTB ($8.9m), Zenith ($4.4m), DangCem ($2.3m), UBA ($1.5m) and Access ($1.4m). Banking stocks had solid day, although it must be said that there was a sell-off from the day's highs into the close as the sector closed +2.17% higher thanks to Access (+4.08%) and UBA (+2.93%). Consumers (+0.33%) also closed in positive territory ono low volume.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
The market open was delayed by a few hours due to a technical glitch, and as such, there was no decent activity worth reporting on.
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
South Africa |
ZAR |
13.13 |
4.67 |
Nigeria |
NGN |
324.50 |
-2.83 |
Kenya |
KES |
103.40 |
-0.86 |
Mauritius |
MUR |
34.82 |
3.31 |
Botswana |
BWP |
10.31 |
3.63 |
Tanzania |
TZS |
2236.00 |
-2.46 |
Uganda |
UGX |
3605.46 |
-0.25 |
Rwanda |
RWF |
827.94 |
-0.72 |
Ghana |
GHS |
4.29 |
-1.28 |
BRVM |
XOF |
589.27 |
6.90 |
Egypt |
EGP |
18.12 |
0.10 |
Morocco |
MAD |
9.76 |
3.75 |
Tunisia |
TND |
2.46 |
-6.16 |