The little volume the stock exchange experienced was divided mostly between two names, Letlole ($5.96k) accounting for 50% of the market and BTCL ($3.51k) about 30% of tioday's turnover, the rest of the exchange was dull.
Nothing particularly exciting in Nairobi as most of today’s action was in Kenol (-2.0%, KES15.00), Equity (unch, KES43.00), NIC (-0.7%), KES35.25) and Safaricom (+0.9%, KES28.75). Foreign participation was down to 50% compared to yesterday’s 55%.
Not a bad day in Port Louis with Rs77m exchanging hands. MCBG (Rs274.00) declined by 0.4% and SBMH (Rs7.74) following suit retreating by 1.3% both accounting for a combined 56% of the market. Grit (Rs1.45) was the other big contributor while the rest of the market was mostly in the green on low volumes.
A lukewarm day in Lagos with some action in GTB ($4.5m), Nestle ($1.5m), UBA ($1.3m) and Zenith ($1.3m) driving proceedings. Banking stocks (+2.74%) and Consumers (+0.94%) both closed the day higher.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Market turnover declined by almost half in Harare seeing Delta ($1.16m) and Innscor ($1.01m) accounting for the bulk of the market accounting for 38% and 33% respectively. Other names worth a mention were BATZ ($314k), Econet ($232k) and Old Mutual ($151k) while the rest of the market was quiet.
| AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE | CURRENCIES | ||||||||||
| Country | Index | 14-Feb-18 | YTD % | Country | Notation | 14-Feb-18 | YTD % | ||||
| Botswana | DCI | 8718.29 | -1.60% | Botswana | BWP | 9.59 | 2.95 | ||||
| Egypt | CASE 30 | 14805.95 | -1.45% | Egypt | EGP | 17.70 | 0.62 | ||||
| Kenya | NSE 20 | 3707.29 | 0.08% | Ghana | GHS | 4.47 | 0.78 | ||||
| Malawi | MASI | 22729.71 | 5.24% | Kenya | KES | 101.20 | 1.96 | ||||
| Mauritius | SEMDEX | 2287.03 | 3.85% | Morocco | MAD | 9.20 | 1.36 | ||||
| SEM 10 | 438.47 | 3.95% | Mauritius | MUR | 32.60 | 3.00 | |||||
| Morocco | MASI | 13051.43 | 5.27% | Nigeria | NGN | 360.27 | -0.08 | ||||
| Nigeria | NSI | 42171.80 | 10.21% | Rwanda | RWF | 848.68 | 0.63 | ||||
| Tanzania | TSI | 3862.95 | -1.44% | Tunisia | TND | 2.41 | 2.28 | ||||
| Rwanda | RSI | 133.53 | -1.37% | Tanzania | TZS | 2 250.77 | -0.72 | ||||
| Uganda | USE ALSI | 2075.32 | 4.94% | Uganda | UGX | 3 630.50 | 0.35 | ||||
| Zambia | LUSE All Share | 5562.59 | 4.41% | BRVM | XOF | 544.37 | 3.64 | ||||
| Zimbabwe | Industrial Index | 299.45 | -8.16% | South Africa | ZAR | 11.88 | 4.21 | ||||
| Mining Index | 128.21 | -9.98% | Zimbabwe | *OMIR | 1.61 | 0.10 | |||||
| *Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate | |||||||||||