Movers & Shakers: December 18, 2017

Botswana: DCI +0.46%, USD 4.64m

A massive day in Gaborone with a cross in FNBB ($4.63m) dominating the market. The rest of the counters were extremely quiet.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.47%, USD 3.05m

Market turnover declined as the week started on a negative note. The holiday period seemed to have affected trading volumes, with Safaricom being the most active name on the day accounting for 63% of turnover as it closed 1.9% lower.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.96%, USD 240k

An average day to open the week in Port Louis today, highlighted by Lux which clipped +14.8% higher to close at Rs70.00. MCBG also closed 1.5% higher at Rs264.00.

Nigeria: ASI -1.24%, USD 10.6m

A negative start to the week as with the Industrial heavy weight, Dangcem (-4.17%), dragging the index lower. There was an off market cross in the name for 549m shares at 225.68 ($344m) involving a local seller and a foreign buyer. Guaranty and Zenith dominated the action n the market on the day, accounting for 42% and 24% of turnover respectively.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.31%, USD 1.4m

Another lukewarm session on the Harare bourse with foreign purchases amounting to $1.11m. OML ($897k) and Delta ($225k) drove proceedings.

African Currencies

                       
 

AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE

   

CURRENCIES

 
                       
 

Country

Index

18-Dec-17

YTD %

   

Country

Notation

18-Dec-17

YTD %

 
 

Botswana

DCI

8890.86

-8.35%

   

Botswana

BWP

10.06

6.20

 
 

Egypt

CASE 30

14721.45

19.26%

   

Egypt

EGP

17.86

1.48

 
 

Kenya

NSE 20

3690.50

15.83%

   

Ghana

GHS

4.53

-9.27

 
 

Malawi

MASI

21480.98

61.26%

   

Kenya

KES

103.10

-0.61

 
 

Mauritius

SEMDEX

2176.06

20.33%

   

Morocco

MAD

9.45

7.16

 
   

SEM 10

416.06

20.58%

   

Mauritius

MUR

34.09

5.53

 
 

Morocco

MASI

12320.89

5.81%

   

Nigeria

NGN

360.49

-12.53

 
 

Nigeria

NSI

37957.96

41.24%

   

Rwanda

RWF

844.24

-2.63

 
 

Tanzania

TSI

3863.34

5.04%

   

Tunisia

TND

2.52

-7.95

 
 

Rwanda

RSI

135.47

6.45%

   

Tanzania

TZS

2 231.51

-2.26

 
 

Uganda

USE ALSI

1791.15

21.24%

   

Uganda

UGX

3 619.33

-0.63

 
 

Zambia

LUSE All Share

5343.61

28.50%

   

BRVM

XOF

562.86

11.92

 
 

Zimbabwe

Industrial Index

327.41

124.87%

   

South Africa

ZAR

12.90

6.50

 
   

Mining Index

141.68

142.15%

   

Zimbabwe

*OMIR

1.59

16.57

 
             

*Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate

   

 

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