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Movers & Shakers: April 01, 2015
Botswana: DCI +0.51%, USD 6.53m
Activity continues to impress in Gaborone as turnover amounted to $6.35m with chunky crosses in Letshego (9.8m shares), Imara (7.31m shares) and Sefalana (1.14m shares).
Kenya: NSE 20 -0.15%, USD 19m
An extremely active day in Nairobi as turnover amounted to a very impressive $19m as foreigners (57.8%) dominated proceedings. There were a few large crosses in Safcom as 23.4m shares traded with the telco closing -0.3% lower. Both banking giants EQBNK and KNCB closed the day unchanged on 7.47m shares and 3.91m shares respectively as foreigners dominated both sides of both names. Centum closed the day -0.8% lower as locals dominated sales on 3.57m shares.
Mauritius: Semdex +0.13%, USD 6.9m
Another very impressive day in Port Louis from an activity point of view as turnover increased to $6.9m with large crosses in MCBG (290k shares) and NMH (823k shares) driving proceedings while SBMH was relatively quite as 8.7m shares changed hands.
Nigeria: ASI +8.30%, USD 55m
A very impressive day in Lagos after the announcement that the country has a new president with turnover amounting to an outstanding $55m. A number of the big names were very active but the standouts were GTB ($11.75m), FBNH ($9.26m), Zenith ($5.78m), Access ($4.18m) and NB ($4.07m). Banking stocks were on fire with the sector gaining +8.88% with most of the big names closing limit up. Consumers were also very impressive as the Index gained +7.24% with a number of names also limit up at the close.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials -1.40%, USD 702k
The index took a big hit today in Harare thanks to Delta which closed at 103.5c. Delta was also the only stock that traded.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
11.99 |
-3.52 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
198.50 |
-7.58 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
92.40 |
-1.95 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
36.20 |
-12.29 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.91 |
-4.26 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1865.00 |
-7.08 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
2992.50 |
-7.40 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
690.50 |
-0.10 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.81 |
-15.71 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
611.41 |
-11.34 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.58 |
-5.65 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9.93 |
-8.74 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.95 |
-4.71 |
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