Movers & Shakers: September 18, 2017

Botswana: DCI unch, USD $186k

BIHL (unch, $76k) and Letshego (unch, $66k) the only two names worth mentioning in Botswana today.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.11%, USD 5.66m

The Market traded slightly higher today, as Safcom (+3.09%, KES25.00) and KCB (+0.60%, KES42.00) led the proceedings accounting for 69% of total market turnover. The rest of the counters were extremely quiet. Foreigners were net sellers accounting for 72% of total sales

Mauritius: Semdex -0.22%, USD 1.86m

MCBG (unch, Rs275.00) and SBMH (unch, Rs7.76) once again leading the way on the Mauritius stock exchange contributing to more than 52% of total market volume. NMH (-0.2%, Rs22.65), Alteo (-1.9%, Rs31.70), ABC Motors (-16.9%, Rs96.00) and Rogers (-1.7%, Rs32.55) accounted for stocks that had some descent activity that was spread across the bourse.

Nigeria: ASI -0.08%, USD 7.85m

Another relatively uneventful day in Lagos as the lion's shares of today's activity took place in Guaranty (+1.42%, N38.54)on the back of a foreign cross of 17m shares. The banks were up 36bps thanks to Guaranty (+1.42%, N38.54), Stanbic (+1.27%, N40.00) and FCMB (+0.98%, N1.03). Consumers fell by 15bps with most names weak on small volumes.

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 -4.91%, USD 2.91m

A chunky trade in Delta ($1.1m) drove the market turnover today on the Harare bourse seeing the name decline 15.04% to 229.37c accounting for 39% of today’s volume. Econet (80.00c, $571k) unchanged, Simbisa (74.00c, $491k) down -6.92%, while Seedco ($333k) rose by 24bps to 240.85c and Old Mutual (729.50c, $274k) following suit.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13,33

3,06

Nigeria

NGN

359,99

-12,41

Kenya

KES

103,30

-0,80

Mauritius

MUR

33,67

6,83

Botswana

BWP

10,20

4,81

Tanzania

TZS

2226,32

-2,03

Uganda

UGX

3596,52

0,00

Rwanda

RWF

849,50

-3,24

Ghana

GHS

4,44

-7,38

BRVM

XOF

556,82

13,13

Egypt

EGP

17,63

2,78

Morocco

MAD

9,33

8,59

Tunisia

TND

2,45

-5,47
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