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Movers & Shakers: April 19, 2017
Botswana: DCI +0.03%, USD 1.4m
An impressive day in Gaborone thanks to crosses in FNBB and Letshego as 3m shares and 1.7m shares changed hands in the names respectively.
Kenya: NSE 20 +0.90%, USD 7.0m
Another solid day in Nairobi thanks as per usual to Safcom ($2.3m) as the telco closed +0.3% higher on the back of foreign demand. There was another big cross in Stanbic ($1.6m) with the buyer being foreign as the name closed unchanged. EABL ($922k) tried to spring to life today, while the rest of the market was quiet.
Mauritius: Semdex +0.06%, USD 730k
Another quiet day in Port Louis with some small activity in MCBG the only name worth mentioning as 49k shares traded.
Nigeria: ASI +0.49%, USD 4.6m
From bad to worse in Lagos on the activity front with Zenith ($1.5m) the only name breaking the $1m mark. Banking stocks closed the day +0.84% higher thanks to FBNH (+7.74%), GTB (+1.35%) and Zenith (+0.69%) while consumers also closed +0.84% higher on low volume.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.12%, USD 49k
Nothing to report from Harare after the extended break.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
13.30 |
3.22 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
314.75 |
0.18 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
103.42 |
-0.88 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
35.28 |
1.96 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
10.42 |
2.46 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
2225.02 |
-2.42 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
3614.00 |
-0.48 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
826.79 |
-0.58 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
4.14 |
2.29 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
614.90 |
2.44 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
18.10 |
0.22 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
10.02 |
1.05 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
2.36 |
-2.07 |
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