Market
Commentary
- African Footprint
- Movers & Shakers
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- Apr 2017
- Mar 2017
- Feb 2017
- Jan 2017
- Dec 2016
- Nov 2016
- Oct 2016
- Sep 2016
- Aug 2016
- Jul 2016
- Jun 2016
- May 2016
- Apr 2016
- Mar 2016
- Feb 2016
- Jan 2016
- Dec 2015
- Nov 2015
- Oct 2015
- Sep 2015
- Aug 2015
- Jul 2015
- Jun 2015
- May 2015
- Apr 2015
- Mar 2015
- Feb 2015
- Jan 2015
- Dec 2014
- December 30, 2014
- December 29, 2014
- December 23, 2014
- December 22, 2014
- December 19, 2014
- December 18, 2014
- December 17, 2014
- December 16, 2014
- December 15, 2014
- December 12, 2014
- December 11, 2014
- December 10, 2014
- December 09, 2014
- December 08, 2014
- December 05, 2014
- December 04, 2014
- December 03, 2014
- December 02, 2014
- December 01, 2014
- Nov 2014
- Oct 2014
- Sep 2014
- Aug 2014
- Jul 2014
- Jun 2014
- May 2014
- Apr 2014
- Mar 2014
- Feb 2014
- Jan 2014
- Movers & Shakers Archive
- Fixed Income
- Research and Publications
Movers & Shakers: December 11, 2014
Botswana: DCI +0.01%, USD 154k
Nothing of note happened in Gaborone today. There was some mild trading activity in Choppies (406t), BIHL (1151t) and Sefalana (922t).
Kenya: NSE 20 -0.22%, USD 11.6m
Another solid day from a turnover point of view in Nairobi as turnover amounted to $11.6m with foreigners dominating proceedings. Some foreign selling pressure in EQBNK drove the name -1.0% lower on 3.15m shares. Safcom took some serious strain today as the telco fell -4.1% on 18.89m shares with foreigners driving the pushing the name lower. There was also foreign profit taking in EABL as the brewer fell -1.3% on 567k shares.
Mauritius: Semdex -0.05%, USD 589k
The market was closed yesterday for elections and today was only a half day of trading in Port Louis. As such volumes were rather quiet with only mild action in SBMH (unch, Rs1.03) and Ciel (unch, Rs7.50) while MCBG closed unchanged at Rs200.00 albeit on tiny volumes.
Nigeria: ASI -3.54%, USD 30.9m
Another active in Lagos as turnover amounted to $30.9m with crosses in the likes of GTB ($5.76m), DangCem ($5.13m),Zenith ($2.63m), Seplat ($2.43m), Diamond Bank ($1.98m) and NB ($1.67m). Banks took some strain today with the Index falling -3.0% with pressure on Zenith (-5.00%), Access (-4.88%), UBA (-4.78%) and FBNH (-4.00%). Consumers (-4.45%) also took a beating with Flour Mills (-9.74%), NB (-5.00%), Guinness (-5.00%) and Cadbury (-5.00%) all taking strain (just to name a few). Cements were also weak with DangCem and WAPCO falling -3.37% and -2.89% respectively.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.07%, USD 1.24m
Activity was spread across a few names for a change in Zimbabwe. These included Seedco (97c), Old Mutual (240c), Innscor (58c), Econet (64c) and Delta (109c).
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
11.56 |
-9.29 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
180.88 |
-11.38 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
90.49 |
-4.63 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
31.60 |
-4.91 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.36 |
-7.57 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1740.00 |
-8.62 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
2740.00 |
-7.77 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
701.02 |
-3.57 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.19 |
-25.57 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
528.84 |
-9.21 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.14 |
-2.75 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
8.87 |
-7.80 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.85 |
-11.17 |
- Kenya +254 (714) 646 406
- South Africa +27 (11) 243 9030
- Nigeria +234 (1) 342 9185
