A lively day in Gaborone thanks to FNBB ($1.2m), Letshego ($806k), Sechaba ($675k) and BIHL ($526k) contributing 86% to market turnover.
Foreign investors were net sellers on a rather uneventful day in Nairobi. Once again volumes were heavily dominated by Safcom with the telco shedding -2.56% to close at KES25.25. The only other names to see any modicum of trading were Equity Bank down -0.64% to KES38.75 and Bamburi -0.56% to KES179.00.
Another solid day in Port Louis today with MCBG (unch,Rs273.75) accounting for 73% of total turnover on the back of foreign crosses. Alteo (-0.6%,Rs32.70) witnessed two significant crosses of 200k and 100k shares.
Positive sentiments trailed the Nigerian equities market today as the ASI enjoyed 19bps increase. The gains posted by FCMB (+1.85%, N1.10), FBNH (+1.05%, N5.80), GTB (+0.96%, N37.88) and Access (+0.62%, N9.72) sustained the banking sector index. The gains recorded in Unilever (+4.76%, N44.00), Nestle (+3.46%, N1,190), Dangsugar (+1.25%, N13.75) and Cadbury (+0.46%, N11) sustained the consumer sector index. Notable trades of the day were Zenith ($781k), NB ($766k), Nestle ($581k), Access ($374k) and Total ($221k).
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
A massive day in Harare seeing Padenga (99.77c, $5.1m) leading the way accounting for 57% of total market turnover, while there was some descent activity in Delta (222.34c, $2.37m) and Simbisa (71.96c, $1.10m) accounting for 26% and 12% of the market respectively. Zimbabwe equities are proving to be a better asset class instead of money, property and other alternative investments.
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
South Africa |
ZAR |
13,14 |
4,56 |
Nigeria |
NGN |
359,35 |
-12,41 |
Kenya |
KES |
102,78 |
-0,30 |
Mauritius |
MUR |
33,22 |
9,02 |
Botswana |
BWP |
10,13 |
5,56 |
Tanzania |
TZS |
2241,66 |
-2,71 |
Uganda |
UGX |
3598,00 |
-0,04 |
Rwanda |
RWF |
835,89 |
-1,66 |
Ghana |
GHS |
4,41 |
-6,70 |
BRVM |
XOF |
547,82 |
14,99 |
Egypt |
EGP |
17,66 |
2,64 |
Morocco |
MAD |
9,37 |
8,12 |
Tunisia |
TND |
2,45 |
-5,57 |