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Movers & Shakers: April 24, 2015
Botswana: DCI unch, USD 349k
Volumes remain subdued with Letshego and Choppies accounting for the bulk of activity.
Kenya: NSE 20 -0.32%, USD 8.0m
Activity remains fairly average on the bourse. The most actively traded names were Equity Bank (+2.6%, KES49.25), KCB (-0.8%, KES64), Safcom (+0.9%, KES17.20) and Britam (+1.2%, KES20.50) accounted for 68.4% of market activity. Foreign participation was 63% which was mainly steered towards market leader Uchumi (+3.4%, KES10.50). Notable losers included BAT (-8.7%, KES705) and Umeme (-8.2%, KES17.45).
Mauritius: Semdex -0.16%, USD 3.3m
All indices closed the day in the red. MCBG accounted for 80.2% of total turnover to close the day off at Rs198.00 (+0.1%) on the back of 480.6k shares traded. Despite registering decent volumes, SBM continues to decline. The counter is currently 2.2% down from previous close, closing at Rs0.88 after trading a total of 9.4m shares.
Nigeria: ASI -0.10%, USD 17.9m
There was a slight improvement in activity as the market struggles to stay afloat. Selling pressure in tier 1 banking names FBNH (-1.33%, N10.40), GTB (-2.44%, N28), UBA (-0.18%, N5.60), Zenith Bank (-3.37%, N22.05) and Access Bank (-0.59, N6.70) resulted in a decline of 1.91% in the banking index. The consumer index rebounded by 0.54% despite low volumes across the sector. In the Cements, Dangcem (+0.57%, N175) was the only counter to make a significant contribution towards turnover ($1.1m) after trading a total of 211m shares.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.32%, USD 1.2m
Delta (unch, 106c), Econet (unch, 49c) and BAT (unch, 1160c) were the most actively traded names in the session, contributing $576k, $753 and $102 respectively.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
12.23 |
-5.43 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
199.05 |
-7.84 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
94.02 |
-3.64 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
36.00 |
-11.81 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.99 |
-4.76 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1960.00 |
-11.58 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
2995.00 |
-7.48 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
715.04 |
-3.53 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.84 |
-16.32 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
610.48 |
-11.20 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.58 |
-5.67 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9.95 |
-8.81 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.95 |
-4.69 |
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