Movers & Shakers: May 19, 2016

Botswana: DCI +0.06%, USD 1.6m

Another decent day in Gaborone thanks to Sefalana as 1.1m shares traded in the name while there was also a small bit of activity in Letshego (686k).

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.06%, USD 6.6m

Another decent day from an activity point of view as foreigners dominated proceedings and accounted for 73.9% of turnover. EABL was the most active name on the day as the brewer fell -0.3% on 472k shares on foreign selling. Safcom closed the day +0.9% higher on foreign demand as 6.9m shares traded in the telco. The two major banking stocks were mixed as EQBNK gained +0.6% while KNCB fell -0.6%.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.56%, USD 910k

Some improved action in Port Louis thanks to some crosses in MCBG (-50bps, Rs208.00).

Nigeria: ASI +0.99%, USD 13.6m

It was a better day in terms of activity thanks to some action in Zenith ($3m), GTB ($1.7m), FBNH ($1.3m) and Presco ($1.3m). There seems to be a bit of interest returning to the market in Nigeria. Lets hope that it can last and continue to increase. Banking stocks were on fire today with the sector gaining +4.62% thanks to GTB (+7.32%) and Zenith (+4.33%). Consumers (-0.82%) were weaker with Guinness (-3.94%) and NB (-1.57%) dragging the sector lower.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.16%, USD 2.7m

A pleasing day in Zimbabwe thanks to Delta (75c). Delta was the main driver behind both the volumes and the index movement.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

15.86

-2.39

Nigeria

NGN

199.25

0.03

Kenya

KES

100.70

1.39

Mauritius

MUR

35.30

1.56

Botswana

BWP

11.27

-0.22

Tanzania

TZS

2190.00

-1.86

Uganda

UGX

3350.00

0.66

Rwanda

RWF

776.92

-4.11

Ghana

GHS

3.83

-0.65

BRVM

XOF

593.42

4.26

Egypt

EGP

8.87

-11.78

Morocco

MAD

9.72

2.34

Tunisia

TNF

2.07

-1.43
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