Movers & Shakers: October 06, 2017

Botswana: DCI -0.03%, USD 54k

Another quiet day in Gaborone to end the week with some small activity in FNBB ($30k).

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.25%, USD 2.20m

The market continued its bearish trend with foreigners accounting for 65.8% of total sales. Foreigners once again were mainly involved in Safcom (unch, KES24.75), locals were taking positions in ARM (-1.00%, KES13.00), DTK (-0.49%, KES185.00) and CFC (-0.62%, KES79.50). Safcom continued to be the most actively traded counter accounting for 55% of today’s trade.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.16%, USD 2.76m

Both the Semdex and the Sem-10 closed the week up +16bps and +23bps respectively. Turnover was mostly geared towards two of the newly listed IBL Notes as well as MCBG (-1.1%, Rs280) in total making 77.7% of turnover .

Nigeria: ASI +1.53%, USD 10.39m

At the close of trading today, the Nigerian equities market traded higher, as the NSE ASI closed the week with 153bps gains. The banking Index and consumer index closed in positive territory (+1.14%) and (+1.75%) respectively. A few notable counters worth mentioning on the day were transactions executed in Zenith (+1.34%, $3.2m), GTB (+1.12%, $1.5m), Access (+1.02%, $1.1m), FBNH (+5.26%, $1.0m) and Stanbic (+0.02%, $944k).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +1.03%, USD 3.93m

The industrial index clipped higher again today with gains in BATZ, Econet, OKZ and OML. Market turnover was mainly geared towards Axia ($1.1m) Simbisa ($1m) and Delta ($994k), the counters accounted for 76% of turnover.

African Currencies

                       
  AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE     CURRENCIES  
                       
  Country Index 5-Oct-17 YTD %     Country Notation 5-Oct-17 YTD %  
  Botswana DCI 8923.72 -8.01%     Botswana BWP 10.43 2.56  
  Egypt CASE 30 13881.97 12.46%     Egypt EGP 17.67 2.55  
  Kenya NSE 20 3751.46 17.74%     Ghana GHS 4.40 -6.59  
  Malawi MASI 19591.14 47.07%     Kenya KES 103.25 -0.76  
  Mauritius SEMDEX 2225.07 23.04%     Morocco MAD 9.48 6.79  
    SEM 10 429.89 24.59%     Mauritius MUR 34.18 5.22  
  Morocco MASI 12379.27 6.31%     Nigeria NGN 355.49 -11.30  
  Nigeria NSI 36320.93 35.15%     Rwanda RWF 846.39 -2.88  
  Tanzania TSI 3814.01 3.70%     Tunisia TND 2.51 -7.57  
  Rwanda RSI 122.97 -3.37%     Tanzania TZS 2,234.20 -2.38  
  Uganda USE ALSI 1721.00 16.49%     Uganda UGX 3,617.83 -0.59  
  Zambia LUSE All Share 5000.05 20.24%     BRVM XOF 575.03 9.54  
  Zimbabwe Industrial Index 448.83 208.26%     South Africa ZAR 13.77 -0.18  
    Mining Index 140.71 140.49%     Zimbabwe *OMIR 4.03 189.33  
              *Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate    
                       
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