Movers & Shakers: August 14, 2017


Botswana: DCI -0.10%, USD 5.0m

A solid start to the week in Gaborone today with some action in Sechaba ($3.9m) accounting for 78% of turnover. There was also some action in Turnstar ($353k), Letshego ($224k) and FNBB ($189k).

Kenya: NSE 20 +2.51%, USD 7.73m

Equity (+2.92%, KES44.00) leading the way on the Nairobi bourse today with almost a third of the market amounting to $2.64m. Other counters worth noting were Safcom (+2.04%, KES25.00) and Kenol (+0.93%, KES16.30). Once again foreign investors out played the locals with 81% of the market sales.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.05%, USD 960k

A quiet start to the week in Mauritius with some activity in CIEL and SBMH the only names worth mentioning.

Nigeria: ASI -0.65%, USD 11.48m

Once again it was all about the banks with foreign buying (and local selling) in the Tier 1 names most evident. The sector lost 0.28% with Access (+0.38%, N10.49), Zenith (-1.05%, N23.50) and GTB (-0.25%, N39.50) seeing some decent crossing. The consumers inched slightly higher albeit on small volumes.

Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.

Zimbabwe: Market closed for the day.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13,3101

3,1888

Nigeria

NGN

366,05

-13,856

Kenya

KES

103,75

-1,23

Mauritius

MUR

33,1847

8,39

Botswana

BWP

10,2514

4,2735

Tanzania

TZS

2239,2

-2,5991

Uganda

UGX

3601,5

-0,1388

Rwanda

RWF

848,75

-3,1517

Ghana

GHS

4,465

-7,9507

BRVM

XOF

558,4446

12,8011

Egypt

EGP

17,7444

2,1449

Morocco

MAD

9,4283

7,404

Tunisia

TND

2,4207

-4,7382

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