Most of today’s action was in EABL (-0.4%, KES240), Safaricom (+2.0%, KES25.25), KCB (+2.5%, KES41.00). Foreign participation was up 50.2% from 48.9% yesterday. Trading on Kenya Airways has been suspended, effective from November 15th 2017 up to and including November 28th 2017. The suspension is to facilitate the share split and consolidation of shares which forms part of the company’s restructuring.
SBMH (unch, Rs7.60) was among the top turnover drivers again today with 2m shares exchanging hands. MCBG (+0.4%, Rs275.00) on the back of foreign selling. Both the Semdex and the Sem-10 clipped higher again today.
Another average day in Lagos seeing the financial sector gain 1.03% and the consumers retreat 0.86%. Stanbic (unch, N42.50), FBNH (-1.67%, N6.90), Dangcem (-0.61%, N230.00) and Guaranty (-0.31%, N42.50) were the major movers on a slow day on the bourse.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
The market opened with some strong selling amid political uncertainties due to the military coup in Harare. The industrial index dipped thanks to losses in Edgards (-19.8%), BAT (-7.5%), PPC (-4.5%) and Innscor (-1.8%). Turnover was geared towards Econet ($7.34m), Delta ($2.27m), PPC ($1.6m) and Seedco ($862k).
AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE | CURRENCIES | ||||||||||
Country | Index | 15-Nov-17 | YTD % | Country | Notation | 15-Nov-17 | YTD % | ||||
Botswana | DCI | 8904.05 | -8.21% | Botswana | BWP | 10.59 | 0.85 | ||||
Egypt | CASE 30 | 14025.11 | 13.62% | Egypt | EGP | 17.66 | 2.66 | ||||
Kenya | NSE 20 | 3728.16 | 17.01% | Ghana | GHS | 4.51 | -8.87 | ||||
Malawi | MASI | 20263.60 | 52.12% | Kenya | KES | 103.80 | -1.01 | ||||
Mauritius | SEMDEX | 2202.89 | 21.82% | Morocco | MAD | 9.40 | 7.68 | ||||
SEM 10 | 420.42 | 21.85% | Mauritius | MUR | 34.06 | 5.61 | |||||
Morocco | MASI | 12629.15 | 8.46% | Nigeria | NGN | 359.88 | -12.38 | ||||
Nigeria | NSI | 36617.45 | 36.25% | Rwanda | RWF | 852.50 | -3.58 | ||||
Tanzania | TSI | 3834.47 | 4.26% | Tunisia | TND | 2.49 | -6.79 | ||||
Rwanda | RSI | 134.13 | 5.40% | Tanzania | TZS | 2,244.50 | -2.83 | ||||
Uganda | USE ALSI | 1710.24 | 15.76% | Uganda | UGX | 3,637.38 | -1.12 | ||||
Zambia | LUSE All Share | 5017.54 | 20.66% | BRVM | XOF | 558.24 | 12.84 | ||||
Zimbabwe | Industrial Index | 534.13 | 266.85% | South Africa | ZAR | 14.34 | -4.19 | ||||
Mining Index | 138.12 | 136.06% | Zimbabwe | *OMIR | 5.76 | 321.89 | |||||
*Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate |