Movers & Shakers: January 13, 2015


Botswana: DCI +0.17%, USD 98k

Nothing tro report from Gabrone as turnover amounted to a paltry $98k.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.31%, USD 3.4m

Not much to report in Nairobi as foreigners remain largely absent as turnover amounted to $3.4m. Locals dominated proceedings in Centum as 985k shares traded with the name gaining +4.8% after they announced that the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Petition Committee had ruled in favour of its Consortium (Centum and Gulf Energy Consortium), regarding the development and operation of the Lamu 1,000 MW coal power plant. There was some foreign activity in KNCB and EABL as 735k shares and 104k shares traded in the names respectively.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.02%, USD 870k

A dull day in Port Louis as turnover amounted to $870k with some activity in MCBG (50k shares) and NMH (52k shares) the only names worth mentioning.

Nigeria: ASI -1.14%, USD 16.9m

Another soft day in Lagos with volumes remaining very thin. Banks (-1.24%) and consumers (-2.23%) remain on the back foot. Most of the banking stocks ended the day in the red with particular weakness in Access (-8.60%, N4.78), UBA (-4.75%, N3.61) and GTB (-3.70%, N19.25) while volumes were focused in FBNH, GTB and Access. The consumers were dominated by NB (-3.74%, N139.00) and Nestle (-1.63%, N799.00). Dangcem spent most of the day at limit down yet finished the day unchanged at N166.40.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.40%, USD 262k

Another slow day in Harare as turnover amounted to $262k with some small activity in Delta ($127k) while the Industrial Index gained +0.40%.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.51

+0.45

Nigeria

NGN

183.50

-0.03

Kenya

KES

91.30

-0.77

Mauritius

MUR

32.15

-1.24

Botswana

BWP

9.53

-1.05

Tanzania

TZS

1724.50

+0.49

Uganda

UGX

2870.00

-3.45

Rwanda

RWF

690.50

-0.10

Ghana

GHS

3.25

-1.23

BRVM

XOF

560.40

-3.26

Egypt

EGP

7.15

+0.01

Morocco

MAD

9.27

-2.10

Tunisia

TND

1.89

-1.74

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