Some small activity in Letshego ($174k) and Turnstar ($144k) accounted for 59% of turnover today.
The market started the week in the negative territory, with thinner volumes than the previous trading day. Foreign participation increased to 71% from 65%. Safcom, whose price remained unchanged, accounted for over 52% of turnover on the day.
Indices closed in the green today with the Semdex up +0.24% and the SEM-10 at 427.98 points up +0.29%. MCBG continued its upward trend closing +0.5% higher at Rs 278.00. Likewise SBMH also closed higher at Rs7.68 (+0.5%).
The market began the week on a very bullish note as all indices closed higher. Crosses in Nigerian Breweries dominated the action on the day, accounting for a total of 76% of total market turnover.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
The lion's shares of today's activity took place in Detla ($715k) accounting for a 66% of the market. There was also some small activity in Hippo and OML.
| AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE | CURRENCIES | ||||||||||
| Country | Index | 8-Jan-18 | YTD % | Country | Notation | 8-Jan-18 | YTD % | ||||
| Botswana | DCI | 8824.03 | -0.41% | Botswana | BWP | 9.87 | -0.30 | ||||
| Egypt | CASE 30 | 14953.17 | -0.47% | Egypt | EGP | 17.66 | 0.87 | ||||
| Kenya | NSE 20 | 3707.66 | 0.09% | Ghana | GHS | 4.55 | -0.99 | ||||
| Malawi | MASI | 21711.40 | 0.52% | Kenya | KES | 103.25 | -0.07 | ||||
| Mauritius | SEMDEX | 2228.74 | 1.21% | Morocco | MAD | 9.36 | -0.32 | ||||
| SEM 10 | 427.98 | 1.46% | Mauritius | MUR | 33.40 | 0.52 | |||||
| Morocco | MASI | 12537.75 | 1.12% | Nigeria | NGN | 360.00 | 0.00 | ||||
| Nigeria | NSI | 39849.65 | 4.14% | Rwanda | RWF | 845.55 | 1.00 | ||||
| Tanzania | TSI | 3692.76 | -5.78% | Tunisia | TND | 2.51 | -1.68 | ||||
| Rwanda | RSI | 135.38 | 0.00% | Tanzania | TZS | 2 239.00 | -0.20 | ||||
| Uganda | USE ALSI | 1970.26 | -0.37% | Uganda | UGX | 3 650.30 | -0.23 | ||||
| Zambia | LUSE All Share | 5331.58 | 0.07% | BRVM | XOF | 566.90 | -0.48 | ||||
| Zimbabwe | Industrial Index | 324.89 | -0.35% | South Africa | ZAR | 12.42 | -0.31 | ||||
| Mining Index | 142.42 | 0.00% | Zimbabwe | *OMIR | 1.58 | 7.27 | |||||
| *Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate | |||||||||||