Movers & Shakers: October 24, 2017


Botswana: DCI unch, USD 89k

Some small activity across the board on another dull day in Gaborone.

Kenya: NSE20 +1.72%, USD 5.72m

The market closed higher on the last day of trading before the re-run of the presidential election on Thursday the 26th of October, with names like ARML, EABL and EQBNK lifting the market higher and were also the stocks with the highest turnover, accounting for a total of 68% of value traded. The NSE will be closed both tomorrow and Thursday (October 25th and 26th).

Mauritius: Semdex -0.14%, USD 2.88m

The indices closed south again today with the SEMDEX down 14bps and the SEM-10 down 16bps. Turnover was driven by MCBG (unch, Rs275) with approximately 114k shares exchanging hands. SBMH (-0.3%, Rs7.64) continued its downward trend.

Nigeria: ASI +0.33%, USD 5.03m

A pretty quiet day in Nigeria as the action was dominated by crosses in Guaranty, Zenith, UBA and Access with the afore mentioned names accounting for a total of 67% of turnover. All indices except the Insurance and Industrials closed higher on the day.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.16%, USD 8.44m

Profit taking for the second consecutive session pushed the industrial index lower in Harare. Turnover was decent at $8,44m geared towards the usual Delta ($2.45m) and Econet ($3.87m). Foreign participation was balanced with inflows of $2.66m compared to outflows of $2.34m.

African Currencies

                       
 

AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE

   

CURRENCIES

 
                       
 

Country

Index

24-Oct-17

YTD %

   

Country

Notation

24-Oct-17

YTD %

 
 

Botswana

DCI

8920.36

-8.04%

   

Botswana

BWP

10.40

2.78

 
 

Egypt

CASE 30

13928.38

12.84%

   

Egypt

EGP

17.63

2.80

 
 

Kenya

NSE 20

3602.56

13.07%

   

Ghana

GHS

4.38

-7.01

 
 

Malawi

MASI

19438.09

45.93%

   

Kenya

KES

103.85

-1.33

 
 

Mauritius

SEMDEX

2201.00

21.71%

   

Morocco

MAD

9.44

7.24

 
   

SEM 10

422.19

22.36%

   

Mauritius

MUR

34.00

5.79

 
 

Morocco

MASI

12355.76

6.11%

   

Nigeria

NGN

360.25

-12.47

 
 

Nigeria

NSI

36531.62

35.93%

   

Rwanda

RWF

852.50

-3.58

 
 

Tanzania

TSI

3903.87

6.15%

   

Tunisia

TND

2.50

-7.18

 
 

Rwanda

RSI

127.69

0.34%

   

Tanzania

TZS

2 235.05

-2.42

 
 

Uganda

USE ALSI

1670.20

13.05%

   

Uganda

UGX

3 659.63

-1.72

 
 

Zambia

LUSE All Share

5097.30

22.58%

   

BRVM

XOF

574.18

9.72

 
 

Zimbabwe

Industrial Index

515.71

254.20%

   

South Africa

ZAR

13.72

0.13

 
   

Mining Index

131.08

124.03%

   

Zimbabwe

*OMIR

5.56

307.76

 
             

*Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate

 
                       

 

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