An impressive day in Gaborone thanks to a cross in Sechaba (846k shares) as turnover amounted to $2.99m while there was also some action in Letshego (1.7m shares).
An impressive start to the week from an activity point of view in Nairobi as turnover amounted to $21.6m thanks to a large local cross in SCAN as 17.3m shares traded in the usually illiquid name. There was a large cross in EABL (foreign buyer/ local seller) as 1.11m shares changed hands in the brewer with the name gaining +5.4%. KNCB was also rather active as foreign demand pushed the name +1.9% higher while there was not much on the go in Safcom with 10.42m shares changing hands in the telco.
A rather slow start to the week in Port Louis as turnover amounted to $740k with some ation in MCBG (43k shares) and SBMH (3.81m shares) the only names worth mentioning.
A very satisfactory start to the week in Lagos as turnover amounted to $29.2m. There was some action in the likes of Transcorp ($7.28m), FBNH ($2.85m), GTB ($2.13m) and Seplat ($2.02m). The impressive rally in banking stocks continued with the Index gaining +6.18% thanks to large gains in Zenith (+10.17%), Access (+10.08%) and UBA (+9.79%). Consumers (+3.15%) were also very strong thanks to Guinness (+4.99%) and NB (+4.07%). It was a similar pincture in the cement sector as WAPCO and DangCem gained +4.99% and +3.13% respectively.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
South Africa |
ZAR |
11.57 |
-9.37 |
Nigeria |
NGN |
184.78 |
-13.25 |
Kenya |
KES |
90.43 |
-4.56 |
Mauritius |
MUR |
31.65 |
-5.06 |
Botswana |
BWP |
9.51 |
-8.01 |
Tanzania |
TZS |
1695.00 |
-6.11 |
Uganda |
UGX |
2760.00 |
-8.44 |
Rwanda |
RWF |
690.50 |
-2.10 |
Ghana |
GHS |
3.21 |
-26.13 |
BRVM |
XOF |
537.82 |
-10.74 |
Egypt |
EGP |
7.15 |
-2.83 |
Morocco |
MAD |
8.97 |
-8.78 |
Tunisia |
TND |
1.86 |
-11.81 |