A quiet day in Gaborone, with nothing significant to be reported.
The market closed higher on the day as foreign participation was down from 85% to 71%. Safcom accounted for over 51% of turnover on the day as its price remain unchanged.
Market turnover grew to Rs38.5m all geared towards the usual suspect banks, MCBG (unch, Rs278.00) and SBMH (+1.3%, Rs7.90) accounting to 65%$ of today’s total market turnover. The rest of the market was spread out towards the likes of Grit (-0.7%, Rs1.40), ENL (unch, Rs41.50) and Gama Civic (+3.1%, Rs33.50).
It was another strong performance in Nigeria as all indices were up once again, and the Banks (+4.38%) continued their dominance. Zenith bank, which traded at limit up on the day, but saw some offers come out in the final few minutes of trading to close up 3.09%, had the highest turnover of the day, accounting for of 25% of turnover.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Another decent day in Harare as the Industrial Index closed weaker down 0.84 points while the Mining Index followed suit down 7.61 points. Axia (18.00c, $319.07k) lead the way accounting for more than a third of total market turnover with Delta (155.51, $137.61k), Old Mutual (481.76c, $141.04k) and Simbisa (43.42c, $101.38k) all had decent activity.
AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE | CURRENCIES | ||||||||||
Country | Index | 11-Jan-18 | YTD % | Country | Notation | 11-Jan-18 | YTD % | ||||
Botswana | DCI | 8827.25 | -0.37% | Botswana | BWP | 9.88 | -0.39 | ||||
Egypt | CASE 30 | 15242.48 | 1.46% | Egypt | EGP | 17.72 | 0.50 | ||||
Kenya | NSE 20 | 3719.77 | 0.41% | Ghana | GHS | 4.55 | -0.93 | ||||
Malawi | MASI | 21869.66 | 1.26% | Kenya | KES | 103.10 | 0.08 | ||||
Mauritius | SEMDEX | 2248.87 | 2.12% | Morocco | MAD | 9.32 | 0.04 | ||||
SEM 10 | 430.85 | 2.14% | Mauritius | MUR | 33.60 | -0.08 | |||||
Morocco | MASI | 12504.46 | 0.86% | Nigeria | NGN | 360.49 | -0.14 | ||||
Nigeria | NSI | 43041.54 | 12.48% | Rwanda | RWF | 858.13 | -0.48 | ||||
Tanzania | TSI | 3923.55 | 0.11% | Tunisia | TND | 2.50 | -1.54 | ||||
Rwanda | RSI | 135.05 | -0.24% | Tanzania | TZS | 2 239.00 | -0.20 | ||||
Uganda | USE ALSI | 1989.48 | 0.60% | Uganda | UGX | 3 652.79 | -0.26 | ||||
Zambia | LUSE All Share | 5265.94 | -1.16% | BRVM | XOF | 570.63 | -1.13 | ||||
Zimbabwe | Industrial Index | 322.49 | -1.09% | South Africa | ZAR | 12.46 | -0.61 | ||||
Mining Index | 134.81 | -5.34% | Zimbabwe | *OMIR | 1.59 | 8.01 | |||||
*Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate |