Movers & Shakers: October 02, 2017


Botswana: Closed for the day.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.51%, USD 3.59m

The market sustained its bearish movement with foreigners accounting for 65% of total sales. Foreigners once again were dominating Safcom (-1.01%, KES24.50), Equity (unch, KES38.75) and EABL (unch, KES250.00), locals were selling if Kenol (unch, KES16.00). Safcom continued to be the most aggressively traded ticker accounting for 42% of the market.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.37%, USD 80k

Not the best day on the Mauritius bourse as all the indices finished the day in the red, total market turnover amounted to Rs39.6m with MCB (-0.7%, Rs285.00) being more than 50% of the market after releasing full year results 2016-17 on Friday night which showed less than expected increase in attributable profits. SBM (-1.3%, Rs7.80) following suit dropping after an article of was published on the suspension of three senior officials.

Nigeria: Closed for the day.

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.60%, USD 5.49m

The lion's shares of today's activity took place in normally illiquid stocks RTG ($3.47m) and Powerspeed ($634k). RTG narrowed its half year loss from $2,9m last year to $300k and in a separate notice on Friday First Mutual Holdings Limited (FMHL) said it had reached an agreement for the disposal of its entire (19.9 percent) shareholding in RTG to its major shareholder, National Social Security Association (NSSA).Both the indices closed higher with the industrials +0.60% and the minings up 6.44%.

African Currencies

 

AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE

CURRENCIES

 

 

Country

Index

2-Oct-17

YTD %

 

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

 

 

Botswana

DCI

8930.36

-7.94%

 

 

Botswana

BWP

10.33

3.95

 

 

Egypt

CASE 30

14000.43

13.42%

 

 

Egypt

EGP

17.64

2.77

 

 

Kenya

NSE 20

3732.16

17.13%

 

 

Ghana

GHS

4.41

-6.78

 

 

Malawi

MASI

19925.66

49.59%

 

 

Kenya

KES

103.25

-0.76

 

 

Mauritius

SEMDEX

2221.53

22.85%

 

 

Morocco

MAD

9.46

7.10

 

 

 

SEM 10

430.22

24.69%

 

 

Mauritius

MUR

33.95

5.95

 

 

Morocco

MASI

12226.10

5.00%

 

 

Nigeria

NGN

358.99

-12.16

 

 

Nigeria

NSI

35439.98

31.87%

 

 

Rwanda

RWF

846.43

-2.89

 

 

Tanzania

TSI

3742.45

1.76%

 

 

Tunisia

TND

2.49

-6.99

 

 

Rwanda

RSI

131.71

3.50%

 

 

Tanzania

TZS

2,235.15

-2.41

 

 

Uganda

USE ALSI

1716.87

16.21%

 

 

Uganda

UGX

3,602.52

-0.18

 

 

Zambia

LUSE All Share

4871.85

17.15%

 

 

BRVM

XOF

569.46

11.83

 

 

Zimbabwe

Industrial Index

420.91

189.09%

 

 

South Africa

ZAR

13.62

1.01

 

 

 

Mining Index

130.46

122.97%

 

 

Zimbabwe

*OMIR

3.76

170.24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate

 

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