Movers & Shakers: December 22, 2014

Botswana: DCI unch, USD 2.99m

An impressive day in Gaborone thanks to a cross in Sechaba (846k shares) as turnover amounted to $2.99m while there was also some action in Letshego (1.7m shares).

Kenya: NSE 20 unch, USD 21.6m

An impressive start to the week from an activity point of view in Nairobi as turnover amounted to $21.6m thanks to a large local cross in SCAN as 17.3m shares traded in the usually illiquid name. There was a large cross in EABL (foreign buyer/ local seller) as 1.11m shares changed hands in the brewer with the name gaining +5.4%. KNCB was also rather active as foreign demand pushed the name +1.9% higher while there was not much on the go in Safcom with 10.42m shares changing hands in the telco.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.15%, USD 740k

A rather slow start to the week in Port Louis as turnover amounted to $740k with some ation in MCBG (43k shares) and SBMH (3.81m shares) the only names worth mentioning.

Nigeria: ASI +3.52%, USD 29.2m

A very satisfactory start to the week in Lagos as turnover amounted to $29.2m. There was some action in the likes of Transcorp ($7.28m), FBNH ($2.85m), GTB ($2.13m) and Seplat ($2.02m). The impressive rally in banking stocks continued with the Index gaining +6.18% thanks to large gains in Zenith (+10.17%), Access (+10.08%) and UBA (+9.79%). Consumers (+3.15%) were also very strong thanks to Guinness (+4.99%) and NB (+4.07%). It was a similar pincture in the cement sector as WAPCO and DangCem gained +4.99% and +3.13% respectively.

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

Zimbabwe: Closed for the day.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.57

-9.37

Nigeria

NGN

184.78

-13.25

Kenya

KES

90.43

-4.56

Mauritius

MUR

31.65

-5.06

Botswana

BWP

9.51

-8.01

Tanzania

TZS

1695.00

-6.11

Uganda

UGX

2760.00

-8.44

Rwanda

RWF

690.50

-2.10

Ghana

GHS

3.21

-26.13

BRVM

XOF

537.82

-10.74

Egypt

EGP

7.15

-2.83

Morocco

MAD

8.97

-8.78

Tunisia

TND

1.86

-11.81
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