A below average day in Gaborone with some small activity in BIHL as 684k(USD67k), Letshego 383k(USD36k) and Turnstar with 346k(USD34k) shares trading in the names and amounting to more than 92% of the market.
Action on the Nairobi bourse today was split across a number of different counters with these names seeing some solid crosses. The major action went through in Safaricom (+1.00%, KES25.25) bearing witness to multiple crosses. Consumers saw some decent volumes with EABL closing at KES267.00 (unch). Centum went up by 0.59% to KES42.50, Bamburi +1.53% to KES199.00 and Kenya Power up 3.15% at KES11.45 all on average volumes. The rest of the market was quiet as foreign investors doing the bulk selling with 73.2% of total market turnover.
Semdex continued its upward trend closing in positive territory today. Yet again the banking heavyweights MCBG (Rs268.50) and SBMH (Rs7.86) drove proceedings accounting for 57.7% and 16.6% of turnover respectively.
The market closed lower with only the Insurance and Oil & Gas sector closing up. Block trades in Guaranty dominated the action on the day, accounting for 53% of turnover. UBA numbers, which looked good, were released during the course of trading with the stock closing up 2.2%
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
A quiet day in Dar with smalls trading in DSE which closed unchanged at TZS1420 being the only name worth mentioning.
A quiet day in Harare as the market continues to be dominated by thin trades. The most active name was Delta ($166k) on the back of 126k shares traded. The Industrial Index continued with the upsurge buoyed by gains in Delta, Hippo, OK and Seedco.
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
South Africa |
ZAR |
13.19 |
4.03 |
Nigeria |
NGN |
363.99 |
-13.37 |
Kenya |
KES |
103.20 |
-0.71 |
Mauritius |
MUR |
33.17 |
8.35 |
Botswana |
BWP |
10.21 |
4.70 |
Tanzania |
TZS |
2227.05 |
-2.09 |
Uganda |
UGX |
3601.15 |
-0.11 |
Rwanda |
RWF |
844.00 |
-2.61 |
Ghana |
GHS |
4.45 |
-7.59 |
BRVM |
XOF |
559.96 |
12.49 |
Egypt |
EGP |
17.70 |
2.42 |
Morocco |
MAD |
9.43 |
7.40 |
Tunisia |
TND |
2.47 |
-5.97 |