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Movers & Shakers: December 19, 2014
Botswana: DCI +0.06%, USD 1.71m
A much better day in Gaborone thanks to a cross in Letshego (4.71m shares) as turnover amounted to $1.71m.
Kenya: NSE 20 -0.96%, USD 9.9m
A much slower day in Nairobi although value traded still amounted to a very respectable $9.9m as activity was pretty evenly split between locals and foreigners. Foreign buying interest pushed Safcom +1.1% as 24.43m shares traded in the telco. Local selling pressure pushed EABL -7.3% lower as 657k shares traded in the brewer thanks to an early cross. Local demand drove KNCB +1.0% higher while EQBNK closed the day unchanged.
Mauritius: Semdex -0.24%, USD 2.61m
A very solid day from an activity point of view to end the week in Port Louis as turnover amounted to $2.61m with some activity MCBG (162k shares), NMH (164k shares) and SBMH (6m shares).
Nigeria: ASI +3.40%, USD 164m
An absolutely mammoth day in Lagos as turnover amounted to $164m thanks to a cross of 3.53bn shares in UBN with AMCON being the seller while Atlas Mara was the buyer. The rest of the market was rather quiet with some action in Seplat ($3.06m), FBNH ($2.49m) and Flour Mills ($2.02m). It was good to see buyers in the market again today as the Bank Index gained an impressive +5.19% thanks to UBA (+10.20%), Access (+10.00%) and Zenith (+6.18%) while the rest of the sector was also very strong. Consumers (+2.07%) also continued to rally thanks to NB (+5.00%), Guinness (+5.00%) and Dnagote Sugar (+5.00%). Cements were also strong with DangCem and WAPCO gaining +4.58% and 4.99% respectively.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.65%, USD 686k
Another slow day in Harare as turnover amounted to $686k with some action in Econet ($436k) and Delta ($199k) while the market closed the day lower with the Index falling -0.65%.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
11.57 |
-9.37 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
183.55 |
-12.67 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
90.45 |
-4.59 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
31.65 |
-5.06 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.51 |
-7.70 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1693.00 |
-6.08 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
2775.00 |
-8.94 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
701.02 |
-3.57 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.19 |
-25.65 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
536.65 |
-10.54 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.14 |
-2.81 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
8.95 |
-8.59 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.86 |
-11.70 |
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