Movers & Shakers: December 27, 2017

Botswana: DCI -0.06%, USD 25k

A dull way to kick off the week in Gaborone with BTCL ($22k) being the lions share of the market, there was nothing more more to report.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.1%, USD 2.8m

Todays market turnover was down 36.8% to $2.8m. Safaricom came out as the top mover while closing 0.9% lower at KES26.25 on the back of net foreign selling. EABL notably declined 5.3% to KES231.00 which was one of the major losers on the back of net foreign selling. Equity Bank was down 3.1% to close at KES39.00 with foreigners doing the bulk of the selling once again. The NSE20 and the NASI dropped 0.1% and 0.9% respectively to 3,714.15 and 170.00. Foreign investors dominated trading with 76% of participation levels, accounting for 69.8% of total purchasing and 82.3% of the total selling.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.02%, USD 830m

An average day in Port Louis with most of the action in the usual suspect MCBG (unch, Rs270.00) as 76k shares changing hands.

Nigeria: ASI -1.64%, USD 5.68m

A quiet day to start the week in Nigeria, as the index closed lower. The only counter to break the $1m mark was Guranty trading $1.1m unchanged at N40.50 the only other ticker worth mentioning was FBNH declining 0.44% trading at N8.96.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +1.97%, USD 618k

The Industrial index recovered to close the day 6.25 points firmer on the back of gains in Econet (+12.35%), Seedco (+14.29%) and Simbisa (+5.97%). Activity was dominated by Seedco ($400k), OML ($109k) and Axia ($90k). The rest of the market was quiet.

African Currencies

                     
  AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE     CURRENCIES
                     
  Country Index 27-Dec-17 YTD %     Country Notation 27-Dec-17 YTD %
  Botswana DCI 8862.22 -8.64%     Botswana BWP 9.89 7.91
  Egypt CASE 30 14904.82 20.75%     Egypt EGP 17.82 1.71
  Kenya NSE 20 3714.15 16.57%     Ghana GHS 4.40 -6.64
  Malawi MASI 21598.07 62.14%     Kenya KES 103.10 -0.61
  Mauritius SEMDEX 2192.72 21.25%     Morocco MAD 9.39 7.79
    SEM 10 420.16 21.77%     Mauritius MUR 33.57 7.15
  Morocco MASI 12152.87 4.37%     Nigeria NGN 359.99 -12.41
  Nigeria NSI 37889.57 40.99%     Rwanda RWF 844.67 -2.68
  Tanzania TSI 3919.25 6.56%     Tunisia TND 2.49 -7.25
  Rwanda RSI 135.38 6.38%     Tanzania TZS 2,234.63 -2.40
  Uganda USE ALSI 2001.01 35.44%     Uganda UGX 3,625.88 -0.81
  Zambia LUSE All Share 5311.54 27.73%     BRVM XOF 572.98 9.94
  Zimbabwe Industrial Index 323.98 122.51%     South Africa ZAR 12.41 10.72
    Mining Index 142.40 143.38%     Zimbabwe *OMIR 1.70 24.77
              *Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate  

 

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