Movers & Shakers: April 09, 2015

Botswana: DCI +0.07, USD 40k

Nothing happened in the market today

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.28%, USD 7.3m

The NSE eased off 14.32 points to settle at 5,128.03 points, with BATK (-9.89%, KES720) and Centum (+5.79%, KES59.50) being the major laggards. The top movers of the day included Safcom (+2.19%, KES16.35), KNCB (+4.07%, KES61.50) and KNOC (-1.11%, KES8.90) as foreigners dominated both sides of the names.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.001%, USD 4.14m

Most indices closed in the red as SBM continued its rally (accounting 64.5% of total market turnover). The latter traded a total of 103.3m shares closing up 1.1% at Rs0.96 while its banking counterpart, MCBG closed flat at Rs198.00 on the back of 199k shares traded.

Nigeria: ASI +1.01%, USD 20.9m

Tier 1 banking names recovered well today due to increased demand. The sector closed up by +1.04% with most activity taking place in the likes of FBNH (+3.49%, N9.50), GTB (+1.33%, N27.51) and Zenith Bank (+1.72%, N23). Consumers closed up by 2.10% buoyed by trades in Nestle (+5%, N1050.00) and NB (+2.62%, N155.98).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.66%, USD 1.6m

Blue chip counters registered some decent volumes today. Afdis (unch, 50c), Delta (+0.04%, 102c) and Econet (unch, 50c) were the most active names accounting for over 70% of total value traded. The stocks traded a total of 539k, 127k and 702k shares respectively.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.85

-2.32

Nigeria

NGN

199.05

-7.84

Kenya

KES

92.77

-2.34

Mauritius

MUR

32.25

-12.41

Botswana

BWP

9.82

-3.30

Tanzania

TZS

1850.00

-6.32

Uganda

UGX

2973.65

-6.81

Rwanda

RWF

715.04

-3.53

Ghana

GHS

3.82

-15.88

BRVM

XOF

615.93

-11.97

Egypt

EGP

7.58

-5.64

Morocco

MAD

9.98

-9.14

Tunisia

TND

1.96

-5.24
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