Movers & Shakers: November 22, 2017


Botswana: DCI -0.14%, USD 220.45k

The little volume the stock exchange experienced was dividsed mostly across two names, FNBB ($118k) and Letshego ($94k) accounting for a combined total of 96% of the market.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.6%, USD9.9m

Another positive day in Nairobi with turnover increasing by 56% from the previous day. Safcom dominated the action on the day, accounting for45% of turnover. Eqbnk and Kncb were the other dominant names, accounting for a total of 27% of turnover. The three afore-mentioned names all closed higher, gaining 4.7%, 1.8% and 1.2% on the day.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.34%, USD 1.12m

The Semdex strengthened with Rs38.5m changing hands geared towards the banking duo of MCBG which was unchanged trading at Rs279.00 and SBMH following suit untouched at Rs7.60 accounting for a combined 51% of total market turnover. Alteo was at Rs34.50 advancing 0.4%, Ciel traded at Rs7.38 declining 0.3% and Terra ended the session Rs33.00 in the positive.

@@@Nigeria: ASI +0.24%, USD6.8m

the market closed marginally higher on the day, recovering from the previous day’s profit taking. Dangcem, Nestle, NB and Guaranty together accounted for a total of 68% of turnover.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -5.07%, USD 12.41m

Turnover on the Harare bourse recovered today with Econet leading the way trading $8.4m accounting for 68% of the market trading at 86.02c. Delta (125.86c, $2.71m), PPC (176.00c, $751kc) and Seedco (167.16c, $229k) were the only other names that traded positively on the day after President Mugabe resigned.

African Currencies

                       
  AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE     CURRENCIES  
                       
  Country Index 22-Nov-17 YTD %     Country Notation 22-Nov-17 YTD %  
  Botswana DCI 8899.83 -8.26%     Botswana BWP 10.44 2.35  
  Egypt CASE 30 13839.37 12.11%     Egypt EGP 17.70 2.40  
  Kenya NSE 20 3839.46 20.50%     Ghana GHS 4.62 -10.94  
  Malawi MASI 20722.59 55.57%     Kenya KES 103.35 -0.85  
  Mauritius SEMDEX 2221.00 22.82%     Morocco MAD 9.45 7.20  
    SEM 10 423.41 22.71%     Mauritius MUR 34.02 5.72  
  Morocco MASI 12553.31 7.81%     Nigeria NGN 359.99 -12.41  
  Nigeria NSI 36608.76 36.22%     Rwanda RWF 852.50 -3.58  
  Tanzania TSI 3830.17 4.14%     Tunisia TND 2.52 -7.92  
  Rwanda RSI 132.32 3.98%     Tanzania TZS 2,244.00 -2.81  
  Uganda USE ALSI 1764.07 19.40%     Uganda UGX 3,632.48 -0.99  
  Zambia LUSE All Share 5019.94 20.71%     BRVM XOF 573.23 9.89  
  Zimbabwe Industrial Index 329.63 126.39%     South Africa ZAR 13.88 -1.00  
    Mining Index 129.79 121.83%     Zimbabwe *OMIR 2.27 66.16  
              *Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate    

 

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