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Movers & Shakers: April 07, 2015
Botswana: DCI unch, USD 3.9m
A massive day in Gaborone as turnover was mainly geared towards FNBB ($3.8m), Letshego ($97k) and Sechaba ($19k).
Kenya: NSE 20 -0.30%, USD 8.4m
Activity remained subdued with turnover amounting to $8.4m as foreigners dominated proceedings (55.5%). Safcom (-4.2%, KES15.90) came under pressure on the back of foreign selling leaving the telco amongst the top decliners of the day. Foreign investors drew a keen interest in KCB accounting for 98.8% of the counter's total purchases. The counter contributed $2.1m towards total turnover to close up +0.8% at KES61.00. Equity bank fell by 2.9% to KES49.50.
Mauritius: Semdex -0.69%, USD 9.1m
Total tournover was mainly buoyed towards SBM (-5.0%,Rs0.95),NMH (unch,Rs64) and MCBG (unch,Rs198.00). SBM traded a total of 122m shares out of which notable crosses of 30m and 86.3m shares were seen at Rs0.94 and Rs0.91 respectively. The rest of the movers traded a total of 1.6m and 478k shares respectively.
Nigeria: ASI -2.20%, USD 41.8m
A dull start to the week in Lagos despite turnover amounting to $41.8m. Banks came under pressure with the sector falling -4.90% after losses were seen in the likes of GTB (-9.69%, N28.79), Zenith (-4.99%,N23.80) and FBNH (-3.46%, N9.21). Consumers also closed the day soft -1.14% thanks to NB (-3.76%,N160) and Guinness (-4.05%,N133.37). There was also some decent action in Dangcem (-1.1%, N180.00) while Oando saw some chunky crossing (-68bps, N17.48).
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.58%, USD 2.4m
Total turnover was mainly buoyed towards Delta (-0.97%, 103.5c), Econet (unch, 50c), Innscor(+1.09%, 55.6c) and Seedco (-0.97%, 103c). Each trading a total of 1m, 571k, 567k and 424k shares respectively.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
11.83 |
-2.24 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
199.05 |
-7.84 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
92.78 |
-2.35 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
36.15 |
-12.17 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.88 |
-3.57 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1857.00 |
-6.68 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
3000.00 |
-7.63 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
690.74 |
-0.14 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.81 |
-15.66 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
606.29 |
-10.56 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.57 |
-5.63 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9.86 |
-7.95 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.94 |
-4.21 |
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