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Movers & Shakers: March 23, 2015
Botswana: DCI +0.20%, USD 609k
Turnover was mainly geared towards Choppies ($2.9k), Letshego ($2.9k) and Sefalana($599k).
Kenya: NSE 20 -0.73%, USD 6.2m
An average start to the week as turnover amounted to $6.2m as locals dominated proceedings. KNCB (-0.8%) closed lower on the back of foreign selling with 2.44m shares changing hands on the day. Local buying interest drove EABL +0.3% higher as 326k shares traded in the brewer. Locals dominated both sides of Safcom as the telco gained +0.3% on 4.79m shares. EQBNK (-3.4%) came under some serious pressure today on foreign selling as 1.04m shares traded.
Mauritius: Semdex +0.31%, USD 1.2m
The banking stocks closed the session off unchanged, MCBG reached a low of Rs29.00 before closing at Rs29.05 on the back of 24k shares traded. SMB closed flat at Rs0.97.
Nigeria: ASI +0.58%, USD 28.3m
A decent start to the week in Lagos from an activity point of view as turnover amounted to $28.3m thanks to large crosses in the likes of Nestle ($5.17m), Mansard ($4.68m), Zenith ($2.98m), UBN ($2.71m) and ETI ($2.64m). Banks had a good start to the week with the sector gaining +1.39% thanks to UBA (+4.82%), ETI (+4.05%) and FBNH (+3.90%). Consumers (-0.27%) closed lower with UACN (-5.00%) and Cadbury (-4.97%) dragging the sector lower.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.54%, USD 364k
The market started the week on a depressed note with respect to activity. Top movers were Delta (Unch, 109c), Ok Zim (-5.71%, 13.20c) and TSL (-4.17%, 23c), each counter contributed $113k, $15k and $99k towards total turnover respectively.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
11.92 |
2.99 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
199.70 |
-8.14 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
91.95 |
-1.47 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
36.65 |
-13.37 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.87 |
-3.52 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1848.25 |
-6.24 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
2960.00 |
-6.39 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
715.04 |
-3.53 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.79 |
-15.10 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
600.77 |
-9.77 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.62 |
-6.25 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9.83 |
-7.64 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.93 |
-3.45 |
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