Movers & Shakers: December 15, 2015


Botswana: DCI +0.09%, USD 796k

Not much on the go in Gaborone outside some activity in Letshego (2m shares) and RDCP (1m shares).

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.49%, USD 11.7m

A very solid day from an activity point of view as turnover amounted to $11.7m with foreigners accounting for 89.4% of activity. KNCB was the most active name on the day thanks to a large cross relatively early in the session as a total of 9.8m shares traded. EQBNK was also very active as 8.3m shares traded in the name with foreigners dominating both sides. There was a little bit of activity in EABL and Safcom as 581k shares and 8.4m shares traded in the counters respectively.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.20%, USD 610k

Another dull day in Port Louis with a small bbit of activity in in MCBG the only name worth mentioning as 57k shares traded.

Nigeria: ASI -0.84%, USD 15.8m

Not much on the go in Lagos with some action in NB ($4.13m), Guinness ($1.93m), DangCem ($1.93m) and Zenith ($1.29m) the major contributors towards turnover. Banks continued to slide as the index fell -0.79% thanks to losses in Access (-4.29%), Zenith (-3.49%) and UBA (-2.68%). Consumers (-0.95%) were also softer as brewers dragged the sector lower with weakness in Guinness (-4.28%), IntBrew (-3.13%) and NB (-1.60%).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.39%, USD 1.5m

A much better day in Harare as turnover increased to $1.5m thanks to some action in Econet ($1.4m) while the rest of the market was extremely quiet.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

14.91

-22.44

Nigeria

NGN

197.44

-7.09

Kenya

KES

102.20

-11.37

Mauritius

MUR

36.00

-11.81

Botswana

BWP

10.97

-13.27

Tanzania

TZS

2,160.00

-19.77

Uganda

UGX

3,400.00

-18.50

Rwanda

RWF

764.50

-9.77

Ghana

GHS

3.82

-15.97

BRVM

XOF

608.07

-10.87

Egypt

EGP

7.82

-8.58

Morocco

MAD

9.84

-7.82

Tunisia

TND

2.01

-7.61

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