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Movers & Shakers: December 03, 2014
Botswana: DCI +0.02%, USD 51.4m
A strange day in Gaborone as nothing much happened except some action in a name that never trades; Shumba. In normal trading nothing happened except a small cross in BIHL (1150t).
Kenya: NSE 20 -0.04%, USD 8.3m
Things slowed down in Nairobi today as turnover amounted to $8.3m with foreigners (58.7%) dominating proceedings. Foreign demand (98%) continues to drive EABL as the brewer gained +1.0% to close at KES 309.00 on 796k shares. Safcom continues to gain as the telco closed +0.4% on 8.61m shares thanks to foreign demand. There was once again foreign demand (80.5%) in EQBNK as 1.34m shares traded over the day.
Mauritius: Semdex -0.04%, USD 2.57m
Activity was once again heavily focused on MCBG (-37bps, Rs203.00) while Ciel (unch, Rs7.78) also saw some mild trading. SBMH closed unchanged at Rs1.03.
Nigeria: ASI -1.07%, USD 25.25m
Another average day in Lagos as turnover amounted to $25.25m with some activity in the likes of NB ($7.20m), GTB ($3.15m), FBNH ($3.03m) and ETI ($1.35m). Banks closed the day lower with the Index falling -2.43% with some pressure on Zenith (-4.23%), FBNH (-3.79%) and GTB (-3.75%). Consumers fell again with the sector closing -1.17% lower thanks to Nestle (-4.99%), Dangote Sugar (-4.98%) and Dangote Flour (-4.98%).
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.12%, USD 1.58m
Activity returned somewhat to Harare today although the bulk of the interest remains in Delta (113c). Delta accounted for 69% of the total trading while there was also mild activity in Innscor (60c), Econet (68c) and Seedco (95.5c).
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
11.08 |
-5.39 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
181.00 |
-11.44 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
90.39 |
-4.52 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
31.55 |
-4.75 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.24 |
-5.47 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1743.50 |
-8.80 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
2752.95 |
-8.21 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
697.86 |
-3.13 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.21 |
-26.08 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
531.43 |
-9.66 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.15 |
-2.86 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
8.87 |
-7.89 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.84 |
-10.92 |
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