Movers & Shakers: January 14, 2016


Botswana: DCI unch, USD 462k

Outside of some action in BIHL (1540t) the bourse was rather subdued.

Kenya: NSE 20 -1.14%, USD 6.9m

The Nairobi bourse followed global markets into the red. The main action went through late in the session in EABL as the brewer closed down 1.1% at KES268. The banks were also on the back foot with KNCB closing down 3% at KES39.75 while Equity bank fell by 60bps to KES39.00. Safcom was also soft and closed down 30bps at KES16.05.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.14%, USD 670k

Another rather dull day in Port Louis with MCBG (74k shares) dominating proceedings.

Nigeria: ASI -3.44%, USD 12.1m

Another absolute bloodbath in Lagos as most names spent the day sitting net offered at limit down. Banks fell by a further 4.69% with all Tier 1 names taking a real pounding. Some decent action was seen in the likes of Zenith Bank (-4.39%, N10.45), GTB (-9.64%, N14.81) and FBNH (-9.52%, N3.61). Consumers also fell albeit by a more subdued 2.42%. Outside of NB (-5%, N92.33) the sector was quiet.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials - -0.13%, USD 547k

Another rather dull day in Port Louis with MCBG (74k shares) dominating proceedings.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

16.39

-5.64

Nigeria

NGN

198.77

+0.27

Kenya

KES

102.38

-0.08

Mauritius

MUR

36.05

-0.55

Botswana

BWP

11.61

-3.37

Tanzania

TZS

2,175.00

-1.18

Uganda

UGX

3,480.00

-3.10

Rwanda

RWF

772.50

-3.56

Ghana

GHS

3.86

-1.49

BRVM

XOF

611.10

+1.21

Egypt

EGP

7.83

-0.06

Morocco

MAD

9.89

-0.03

Tunisia

TND

2.04

-0.40

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