Movers & Shakers: December 11, 2017

Botswana: DCI -0.01%, USD 105k

Some small activity in Choppies ($82k) and BTCL ($20k). the rest of the market was extremely quiet.

Kenya: NSE 20 -32.30.03%, USD 3.57m

Market turnover on the Nairobi bourse declined by approximately 32% from last weeks close with foreigners assuming 81% of today’s buying and 66% of selling. Safcom (KES27.75) was the only ticker to break the $1m mark advancing 0.90% trading at KES28.00, while Eqiuty (-0.61%, KES40.75), Scan (-5.61%, KES18.50) and KCB (-0.59%, KES42.00) were below par on a tough day.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.04%, USD 340k

The banking duo MCBG and SBMH, both unch, were the most actively traded names accounting for approximately half of the total turnover. The indices closed higher today.

Nigeria: ASI -0.88%, USD13.65m

An average day on the Lagos bourse and another day of massive crosses dominating today proceedings seeing the banking and consumers ending in the negative territory closing 0.88% and up 0.75% respectively. Zenith (-3.27%, N26.03) about 9% of the market, FBNH (+0.89%, N9.10), GTB (-.83%, N41.65), UACN (-4.63%, N16.70) and Nestle (+3.54, N1,460.00) were the major movers on the day with some decent activity,

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.69%, USD 2.3m

An uneventful day to start the week in Harare today, with activity in only a handful counters. Econet (-5.97%, 97.82c) and OML (-7.62%, 4.3939). The most actively traded names in the session were Delta and OML.

African Currencies

                       
  AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE     CURRENCIES  
                       
  Country Index 11-Dec-17 YTD %     Country Notation 11-Dec-17 YTD %  
  Botswana DCI 8888.31 -8.37%     Botswana BWP 10.35 3.31  
  Egypt CASE 30 14426.75 16.87%     Egypt EGP 17.76 2.07  
  Kenya NSE 20 3731.79 17.12%     Ghana GHS 4.48 -8.26  
  Malawi MASI 21480.88 61.26%     Kenya KES 103.15 -0.66  
  Mauritius SEMDEX 2164.97 19.72%     Morocco MAD 9.46 7.11  
    SEM 10 410.61 19.00%     Mauritius MUR 34.00 5.80  
  Morocco MASI 12386.90 6.38%     Nigeria NGN 360.20 -12.46  
  Nigeria NSI 38913.99 44.80%     Rwanda RWF 853.50 -3.69  
  Tanzania TSI 3862.32 5.02%     Tunisia TND 2.52 -8.08  
  Rwanda RSI 134.39 5.60%     Tanzania TZS 2,245.25 -2.86  
  Uganda USE ALSI 1804.48 22.14%     Uganda UGX 3,620.33 -0.65  
  Zambia LUSE All Share 5247.08 26.18%     BRVM XOF 572.04 10.12  
  Zimbabwe Industrial Index 333.64 129.15%     South Africa ZAR 13.63 0.85  
    Mining Index 136.75 133.72%     Zimbabwe *OMIR 1.65 20.59  
              *Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate    

 

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