Movers & Shakers: November 29, 2016

Botswana: DCI -0.09%, USD 69k

Nothing to report from Gaborone.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.21%, USD 5.4m

A cross in Safcom (unch) help the telco account for over half of today's turnover with 14.5m shares changing hands in the name as foreigners dominated both sides. There was also some activity in EABL (-2.4%) as the brewer came under pressure from both local and foreign sellers as 441k shares traded. The two banking heavyweights EQBNK and KNCB were very quiet.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.21%, USD 1.3m

The Semdex closed marginally in the red today on reasonable volumes of $1.35m. The most active stocks, as usual, were the 2 banks as we saw MCBG close unchanged at Rs214.00 while SBMH inched higher to Rs6.82.

Nigeria: ASI -0.34%, USD 5.3m

A cross in Seplat ($1.3m) the only name worth mentioning on another dire day from an activity point of view. Banking stocks closed the day lower on low volume with the sector falling -0.41%. Consumer stocks (+0.53%) closed the day higher thanks to a positive move in NB (+1.41%).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +2.40%, USD 2.5m

The rally continues unabated as the aggressive local demand continues to push the market higher. Today was the turn of Econet (31c) and Delta (84c) to continue driving the outperformance.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.98

10.61

Nigeria

NGN

312.75

-36.28

Kenya

KES

101.88

0.41

Mauritius

MUR

35.88

-0.08

Botswana

BWP

10.76

4.38

Tanzania

TZS

2179.00

-1.36

Uganda

UGX

3634.00

-7.21

Rwanda

RWF

812.62

-8.32

Ghana

GHS

4.37

-12.93

BRVM

XOF

622.16

-0.58

Egypt

EGP

17.89

-56.26

Morocco

MAD

10.09

-1.55

Tunisia

TNF

2.31

-11.45
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