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Movers & Shakers: April 10, 2015
Botswana: DCI -0.01, USD 224k
Nothing happened in the market today
Kenya: NSE 20 -0.08%, USD 8.3m
A quiet end to the week in Nairobi as foreign sellers pushed the market slightly lower. The most active name by a long way was Safcom which saw some chunky foreign selling throughout the day as the telco closed down 2.8% at KES15.90 and looked weak at the close. Equity Bank also saw a nice cross as the banking group gained 1.6% to KES48.25. KNCB grabbed the coattails and gained 2.4% to KES63.00 albeit on tiny volumes.
Mauritius: Semdex -0.004%, USD 5.5m
Indices closed off in negative territory on 372.20 points. SBM traded a total of 28m shares closing the week firm at Rs0.96 after trading at a VWAP of Rs0.94 during the session. Total market turnoff was buoyed by MCBG, which closed up by 0.5% at Rs199.00 after exchanging a total of 659k shares.
Nigeria: ASI +1.19%, USD 40.3m
A quieter session today outside of the $18m book over in Diamond Bank (+2.76%, N4.47) while we finally saw some demand in the banking and consumer sectors which closed up 1.21% and 2.04% respectively. The most active stocks were FBNH (+0.11%, N9.51), GTB (+1.82%, N28.01) and Zenith Bank (+2.26%, N23.52). Unilever released poor Q1-15 results which saw PAT and PBT decline by 20.65% and 21.34% respectively.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.77%, USD 10.8m
ZWtA good day from a turnover point of view in Harare. Dawn traded a total of 459m shares to close up by 10% at 110c ($9.1m). Chunky volumes were seen in Econet (unch, 50c), Ok Zim (+3.77%, 11c) and Seedco (-1.48%, 100c) each trading a total of 1.8m, 1.1m and 117k shares respectively.ext
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
11.85 |
-2.32 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
199.25 |
-7.93 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
93.00 |
-2.58 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
36.31 |
-12.56 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.92 |
-2.58 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1850.00 |
-6.32 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
2975.00 |
-6.86 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
690.75 |
-0.14 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.82 |
-15.88 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
620.89 |
-12.70 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.63 |
-6.26 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
10.05 |
-9.74 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.97 |
-5.72 |
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