Movers & Shakers: September 04, 2017

Botswana: DCI -0.20%, USD 3.77m

A brilliant day in Gaborone with Letshego ($1.64m) being the lion’s share with 44% of the market turnover. NAP ($721k), Engen ($401k), BIHL ($417k) and Primetime ($186k) the other counters worth mentioning on a good all round at the bourse.

Kenya: NSE 20 -2.10%, USD 16.2m

Safcom shed 1.00% on high volumes to close the day almost 80% of total market turnover showing some weakness towards the end of the session. Other counters to mention are Bamburi (-2.7%, KES180.00) and Equity (-0.6%, KES40.00). Once again foreigners leading the way with 91.2% of the market sales and 57.3% on the buy side.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.44%, USD 600k

A below average day to start the week in Port Louis with a cross in IBL (Rs4.5m) with 95k shares exchanging hands. The banking heavy weights MCBG (-0.1%, Rs269.75) and SBMH (-0.3%, Rs7.86) closed lower.

Nigeria: Closed for the day.

Tanzania: Data not available at the time of writing

Zimbabwe: Industrials +2.4%, USD 1.51m

A good start to the week in Harare on the back of decent trades in Econet and Delta accounting for 76% of turnover.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.97

6.00

Nigeria

NGN

354.99

-12.41

Kenya

KES

103.25

-0.76

Mauritius

MUR

32.71

9.00

Botswana

BWP

10.09

5.88

Tanzania

TZS

2243.55

-2.79

Uganda

UGX

3598.61

-0.06

Rwanda

RWF

834.70

-1.52

Ghana

GHS

4.44

-7.33

BRVM

XOF

559.37

12.62

Egypt

EGP

17.63

2.79

Morocco

MAD

9.38

7.92

Tunisia

TND

2.45

-5.81
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