Movers & Shakers: February 11, 2015


Botswana: DCI +0.02%, USD 31k

The market was dead.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.32%, USD 11.0m

Some heavy foreign trading late in the session took place on a rather active day in Nairobi. The 2 names which saw the bulk of this action was KNCB (-80bps, KES 58.50) and Safcom (+30bps, KES 14.85) which both saw high foreign action on both sides of trading. There was also a couple of crosses in ARML (mostly local) as the name gained 1.2% to KES 84.50 while Stanchart was also heavily traded by local investors (+1.8%, KES 347). Other large cap names were quiet.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.10%, USD 1.83m

MCBG accounted for 42% of total market turnover, closing the day off at Rs197.50 on a volume of 128.2k shares traded. The other banking heavyweight, SBM finished the day flat at Rs1.01 on a total of 4.3m shares exchanged. Monthly Tourists arrivals increased by 7.6% from January 2014 to January 2015.

Nigeria: ASI -1.39%, USD 30.5m

Once again the market remains dull with just a couple of crosses lighting up the screens. The banks were weak (-1.04%) with UBA (-4.72%, N3.03) the hardest hit with the bulk of the action took place in Zenith (-38bps, N15.94) and Access (-1.67%, N5.88). Consumers closed the day down by 56bps with some massive crosses seen in NB (-15bps, N131.80) and Nestle (unch, N764.75). Outside of these the market was rather dull.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.85%, USD 1.32m

Delta was the only counter on the bourse to see notable volumes, as the stock traded a total of 1,01m shares to close at 116c. Losses in CBZ, Econet and Old mutual dragged the index down, each closing at 9c (-10%), 54.90c (-0.18%) and 233c (-0.85%) respectively.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.81

-2.04

Nigeria

NGN

203.90

-10.03

Kenya

KES

91.61

-1.10

Mauritius

MUR

33.16

-4.27

Botswana

BWP

9.72

-2.31

Tanzania

TZS

1840.00

-5.82

Uganda

UGX

2870.00

-3.45

Rwanda

RWF

695.20

-0.78

Ghana

GHS

3.40

-5.50

BRVM

XOF

582.19

-6.90

Egypt

EGP

7.58

-5.64

Morocco

MAD

9.57

-5.18

Tunisia

TND

1.93

-3.65

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