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Movers & Shakers: August 16, 2017
Botswana: DCI unch, USD 3.7m
Another impressive day in Gaborone today with increased volumes exchanging hands. 90% of the day’s turnover was accounted for by Sechaba ($3.4m) which saw 1.73m shares at 200t.
Kenya: NSE 20 -1.09%, USD 10.98m
Safaricom (-2.02%, $3.35m) once again leading the way on the Nairobi stock exchange followed by the likes of KCB (-1.10%, $1.96m) and Equity (-1.13%, $1.46m). Even though almost the whole board flashed red, foreign selling continued dominating the bourse amounting to 64.9% of total market sales and 42.9% of market purchases.
Mauritius: Semdex+0.26%, USD 4.14m
The market ended the day marginally higher with the Semdex up 0.26% and the Sem-10 up 0.15%. There was a cross of 2.13m shares in New Frontier Properties ($3.5m). MCBG remained level at Rs268 while SBM edged up +0.8% to close at Rs7.86.
Nigeria: ASI -2.68%, USD 13.83m
Red flashed across almost the whole board today on the Nigeria stock exchange, NB (-2.63%, N185.00) traded almost a third of the market helped by the likes of GTB (-4.68%, N37.10), Nestle (+0.99%, N1,220.00) and ZB (-3.27%, N22.50) all helping the bourses daily turnover.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Tanzania: DSEI -12.10%, USD 30k
The major action today went through in TOL Gases (TZS800) accounting for 40% of the market. Vodacom (TZS900) traded on small volumes throughout the day.
Zimbabwe: Industrial +0.28%, USD 225k
Some small activity in Seedco ($90k), NMB ($52) and NAMPAK ($19k) the only names worth mentioning after the long weekend in Harare.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
13,1989 |
4,1074 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
361,91 |
-12,8706 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
103,75 |
-1,23 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
33,35 |
7,86 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
10,2356 |
4,3803 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
2236,95 |
-2,5012 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
3600 |
-0,0972 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
843,5 |
-2,5489 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
4,4 |
-6,5909 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
562,9031 |
11,91 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
17,7836 |
1,9197 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9,4759 |
6,8848 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
2,4191 |
-5,3185 |
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