Movers & Shakers: December 12, 2014


Botswana: DCI -0.06%, USD 2.56m

It was all about Letshego today as we saw some chunky local selling and foreign buying at 266t. Outside of this the market was dead.

Kenya: Closed for the day.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.23%, USD 1.49m

Some activity today in the 2 major banking groups although both names lost ground. MCBG shed 50bps to Rs199.00 while SBMH ended the day down by 97bps at Rs1.02. There was also some action in Ciel (unch, Rs7.50).

Nigeria: ASI -0.96%, USD 26m

A rather average day from a turnover point of view as total value traded amounted to $26m while the market continued to come under pressure. There was some action in the likes of NB ($6.83m), Nestle ($3.99m), GTB ($1.79m) and DangCem ($1.66m). Banks continued to fall with the Index closing -1.65% lower thanks to the likes of Access (-4.67%), UBA (-2.39%) and GTB (-1.36%). Consumers (-2.69%) took another beating thanks once again to NB (-5.00%) and Guinness (-5.00%) while there was broad based selling across the sector.

Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.11%, USD 1.60m

The Industrials index inched marginally lower. There was some activity in the likes of CBZ (10c), Delta (109c), Econet (63c) and Old Mutual (240c).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.64

-9.88

Nigeria

NGN

180.50

-11.19

Kenya

KES

90.50

-4.64

Mauritius

MUR

31.65

-5.06

Botswana

BWP

9.47

-5.95

Tanzania

TZS

1735.51

-8.38

Uganda

UGX

2770.00

-8.77

Rwanda

RWF

701.02

-2.55

Ghana

GHS

3.21

-26.19

BRVM

XOF

529.53

-9.08

Egypt

EGP

7.15

-2.85

Morocco

MAD

8.85

-7.59

Tunisia

TND

1.85

-11.02

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