Movers & Shakers: July 25, 2017

Botswana : DCI Unch, USD 21k

A woeful day on the bourse today, nothing worth reporting on in Gaborone.

Kenya : NSE 20 +0.5%, USD 12m

Busy day in Kenya as turnover tripled to USD 12.0m, with Safaricom (+1.1%) accounting for 34% of turnover. Foreign participation dropped to 57% from 69%. EABL (+2.6%) exchanged 460k shares at an average of Kes 262.00.

Mauritius : Semdex +0.61%, USD 900k

It was a rather average day in Mauritius with volumes yet again being dominated by banking behemoths MCB and SBM. MCB was down -0.4% at Rs274, while SBM edged up 1.5% at Rs7.90.

Nigeria : ASI +2.54%, USD 18.7m

Another decent day of trading in Lagos as crosses in UBA ($6.0m), Zenith ($3.3m), Dangcem ($2.3m) and Access ($1.5m) drove proceedings. The Banking index closed +2.62% thanks to UBA (+10.16), Zenith (+3.23%) and Access (+1.59%). Consumers closed +0.12% and the Industrials (+2.94%) on the back of Dangcem (+4.90%)

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

Zimbabwe : Industrials -0.15%, USD 938k

The index once again had a slight negative day although volumes were extremely impressive – locals heavily dominant yet again. Volumes were headlined by Delta (127.25c) with more than a half of the market and Zimre Property Investments (0.0135c) a third of the bourse.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13,03

5,42

Nigeria

NGN

315,00

0,10

Kenya

KES

103,91

-1,39

Mauritius

MUR

33,71

6,70

Botswana

BWP

10,18

5,02

Tanzania

TZS

2227,05

-2,07

Uganda

UGX

3599,75

-0,09

Rwanda

RWF

829,71

-0,93

Ghana

GHS

4,40

-6,54

BRVM

XOF

569,77

10,56

Egypt

EGP

17,93

1,07

Morocco

MAD

9,50

6,41

Tunisia

TND

2,44

-4,95
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