Movers & Shakers: October 15, 2015


Botswana: DCI +0.22%, USD 734k

Today was the turn of the normally illiquid NAP (258T) to cross in a generally dull session.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.20%, USD 12.6m

Another decent day with action heavily focused on the banks yet again while foreigners remain dominant on both sides of the equation. The 2 big banks were the 2 most active stocks and both gained 2.5% with KNCB closing at KES KES41.25 and Equity Bank at KES41.00 respectively. EABL saw a couple of decent crosses yet ended the day unchanged at KES253. There was some crossing in CFCB (local selling, foreign buying) as the stock closed up 2.3% at KES90.00.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.35%, USD 1.71m

The Mauritian bourse fell for a 9th consecutive session. As usual, the lion's share of the action belonged to the 2 major banking groups. MCBG fell by a further 50bps to Rs206.00 while SBMH closed unchanged at Rs0.80.

Nigeria: ASI +0.11%, USD 17.2m

Volumes improved markedly from the previous few sessions although activity still remains heavily dominated by just a couple of crosses. Early in the session there were some chunky crosses in Dangcem (+63bps, N161.01) and Forte Oil (+2.27%, N270.00). In normal trading we saw the banks fall by another 71bps with activity led by GTB (-1.37%, N23.04) and Zenith Bank (-59bps, N16.85). Consumers closed marginally in the red although outside of NB (+1bp, N135.01) the sector was extremely quiet.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.09%, USD 323k

Another quiet day in Harare. The only stock that saw any action was in Econet (27c).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.10

-11.69

Nigeria

NGN

198.66

-7.66

Kenya

KES

103.05

-12.08

Mauritius

MUR

35.20

-9.80

Botswana

BWP

10.24

-7.14

Tanzania

TZS

2,173.22

-20.26

Uganda

UGX

3,673.00

-24.56

Rwanda

RWF

736.95

-6.40

Ghana

GHS

3.85

-16.43

BRVM

XOF

585.48

-7.41

Egypt

EGP

7.91

-9.65

Morocco

MAD

9.62

-5.70

Tunisia

TND

1.95

-4.45

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