Movers & Shakers: February 01, 2016


Botswana: Data not available at time of writing.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.16%, USD 2.0m

An absolutely dire start to the week in Nairobi with turnover amounting to a paltry $2.0m. There was some small activity in KNCB (2m shares) and Safcom (4.7m shares) the only names worth mentioning while the rest of the market was extremely quiet.

Mauritius: Market closed for the day.

Nigeria: ASI -0.37%, USD 7.4m

A very slow start to the second month of the year in Lagos with some activity in Zenith ($1.4m), UBA ($1.3m) and GTB ($1.3m) the only names to break the $1m mark. Banks had another good day with the sector gaining +2.10% thanks to strong moves in Zenith (+8.56%) and FBNH (+2.04%). Consumers (-0.74%) closed the day lower with losses in 7UP (-5.00%) and Guinness (-3.72%). There was an off-market cross of 30m DangCEm @ N120.00.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.29%, USD 285k

The index continues to fall as another 29bps dropped off the market cap. Volumes also remain quiet.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

16.06

-3.71

Nigeria

NGN

199.05

+0.13

Kenya

KES

102.33

+0.10

Mauritius

MUR

36.08

-0.64

Botswana

BWP

11.45

-2.05

Tanzania

TZS

2,185.00

-1.63

Uganda

UGX

3,479.00

-3.08

Rwanda

RWF

746.49

-0.20

Ghana

GHS

4.05

-6.05

BRVM

XOF

615.05

+0.55

Egypt

EGP

7.82

+0.04

Morocco

MAD

9.89

+0.41

Tunisia

TND

2.04

-0.03

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