Movers & Shakers: September 02, 2015

Botswana: DCI -0.18%, USD 1.98m

A very solid day in Gaborone thanks to crosses in Letshego (3.46m shares), Stanchart (437k shares) and Barclays (543k shares).

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.63%, USD 3.2m

A better day in Nairobi as turnover amounted to $6.2m with foreigners dominating proceedings. EABL was the most active counter on the day as 688k shares traded with the brewer falling -0.4%. Foreign demand drove Centum +0.4% higher as 1.37m shares traded. Safcom closed the day unchanged on light volume with 4.4m shares changing hands in the telco. KNCB and EQBNK were very quiet. BATK fell -8.2% after parliament's decision to increase the proposed excise duty on cigarettes.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.86%, USD 1.95m

A very pleasing day from an activity point of view with total value traded amounting to $1.95m. Some solid action in MCBG drove proceedings as 194k shares traded in the name while there was a small bit of activity in SBMH (12.9m shares).

Nigeria: ASI -1.17%, USD 22.6m

Aside from a cross in Zenith ($13.2m) the market was extremely dull with some activity in GTB ($1.66m) the only other name worth mentioning. Banks closed the day lower after a few days of solid gains with the sector falling -1.67% thanks to GTB (-3.35%), FBNH (-2.41%) and ETI (-2.23%). Consumers (-1.06%) also closed lower with losses in Dangote Sugar (-9.16%), UACN (-5.00%) and IntBrew (-4.17%) amongst the worst performers.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.08%, USD 1.1m

Activity slowed down in Harare today but was still better than what we have become accustomed to with turnover amounting to $1.1m thanks to Econet ($1.09m) while the rest of the market was dead.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.48

-14.20

Nigeria

NGN

199.05

-7.83

Kenya

KES

104.20

-13.05

Mauritius

MUR

35.25

-9.93

Botswana

BWP

10.37

-8.28

Tanzania

TZS

2150.00

-19.40

Uganda

UGX

3670.00

-24.50

Rwanda

RWF

729.98

-5.50

Ghana

GHS

3.85

-16.50

BRVM

XOF

589.11

-7.97

Egypt

EGP

7.83

-8.68

Morocco

MAD

9.69

-6.42

Tunisia

TND

1.94

-4.34
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