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Movers & Shakers: August 25, 2017
Botswana: DCI -0.05%, USD 2m
Not a bad way to end the week in Gaborone with FNBB (2.35t, $1.86m) being over 90% of total market turnover. The only other counter worth noting is BTCL (1.47t, $150k).
Kenya: NSE 20 +2.15%, USD 6.81m
A slight improvement on the Kenya stock exchange today as Safaricom(+4.95%, KES26.50) announcing an amendment in the book closure date from 1 September 2017 to 15 September 2017, Bamburi (-4.02%, KES191.00) and KCB (+0.55%, KES45.50). We saw red flash across a lot of the board with foreign selling accounting 58.8% and buying up slightly from the previous day’s trading to 32.8%.
Mauritius: Semdex -0.03%, USD 1.60m
Semdex closed the week in the red as MUA and MCBG accounted for 69% of total turnover. MCBG reached an intra-day high of Rs268.75 but closed unchanged at Rs268.50 on 65.4k shares exchanged. SBMH traded flat at Rs7.86 and saw a total of 567.3k shares traded.
Nigeria: ASI +0.19%, USD 8.8m
The market closed higher on lower volumes as the Consumers (+0.86%) tilted the index onto the positive region on the back of names like Intbrew (+7.25%), Flourmill (+4.98%), and Dangsugar (+4.60%). All other indices were down.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Tanzania: ASI -0.23%, USD 86k
The main highlight in Dar today was VODA which accounted for 55% of turnover with 125k shares exchanging hands.
Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.83%, USD 651k
An average day to end the week in Harare with some action in an unusual name CFI (+3.4%, 65.15c) on the back of 546k shares traded. The Industrial Index continued with the upsurge supported by gains in Afdis, Econet, Innscor, Old mutual and ZBFH.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
13,09 |
4,95 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
367,99 |
-14,31 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
103,25 |
-0,76 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
33,11 |
8,62 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
10,20 |
4,81 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
2223,75 |
-1,92 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
3600,50 |
-0,11 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
833,82 |
-1,42 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
4,44 |
-7,40 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
559,14 |
12,66 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
17,70 |
2,42 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9,41 |
7,61 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
2,44 |
-5,69 |
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