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Movers & Shakers: September 06, 2017
Botswana: DCI +0.37%, USD 285k
Things slowed down in Gaborone today with some small action BIHL ($164k) the only name worth mentioning.
Kenya: NSE 20 +0.45%, USD 16.22m
The market was bullish with foreigners accounting for 91.90% of total sales. Foreigners were mainly selling Safaricom (unch, KES24.75), Diamond (unch, KES177.00) and Eqbnk (+0.65%, KES39.00) whilst locals were taking advantage of the lower prices in Co-op (+0.62%, KES16.30). Safaricom was the most actively traded counter in the session (accounted for 53% of activity) on the back of its dividend record date on 09/15/2017.
Mauritius: Semdex -0.49%, USD 1.47m
Activity was spread across the board today in Port Louis. The Sem-10 slid by 67bps with weakness in MCBG (-20bps, Rs269.25), IBL (-220bps, Rs43.00) and Terra (-30bps, Rs7.72). The only riser to mention was ABC Motors gaining 500bps to Rs115.50. In Economic news The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Mauritius announced that the the Key Repo Rate will drop from 4.00% to 3.5% per annum.
Nigeria: ASI +0.07%, USD 15.10m
The market closed higher with the consumers (+1.07%) leading the gains as Guinness closed up 10.24%. Guaranty (-1.26%) dominated the action on the day with foreign crosses accounting for circa 50% of turnover. The Industrials and Oil & Gas were the only indices that closed negative.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Tanzania: Data not available at the time of writing
Zimbabwe: Industrials +3.02%, USD 4.74m
Another strong day on the Harare bourse as the aggressive local buying continues unabated. Today we saw some chunky volumes in the Simbisa ($1.5m), Seedco ($768k) Innscor ($621k) Mash ($378k) and Econet ($239k).
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
12.88 |
6.76 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
359.29 |
-12.24 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
103.30 |
-0.80 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
33.00 |
13.29 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
10.05 |
6.20 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
2239.95 |
-2.63 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
3600.00 |
-0.03 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
835.12 |
-1.57 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
4.41 |
-6.80 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
551.33 |
14.26 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
17.64 |
2.76 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9.36 |
8.28 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
2.44 |
-5.03 |
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