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Movers & Shakers: January 26, 2015
Botswana: DCI -0.19%, USD 17k
The market continues to see lackluster volumes.
Kenya: NSE 20 -0.15%, USD 4.7m
Another average start to the week from an activity point of view with turnover amounting to $4.7m as locals continue to dominate. Foreign selling pressure continues to drive Safcom lower as the telco fell -1.1% on 10.8m shares. Local selling pressure drove EQBNK -1.8% lower as foreigners drove demand in the name. A foreign cross in EABL boosted activity in the brewer as 169k shares traded. A local cross in the usually illiquid NIC Bank drove turnover in the name as 725k shares traded.
Mauritius: Semdex +0.20%, USD 840k
Trades in Rogers, SBM and MCBG carried the day. Rogers gained 4.2% to close at Rs29.70 on the back of 73.4k shares traded. SBM traded 2.6m shares to close at Rs1.01 (+1%), while its banking counterpart MCBG traded a total of 9,901 shares to close steady at Rs198. Lotto ended the session as the biggest loser, closing -1.5% (Rs10) down.
Nigeria: ASI -0.11%, USD 20.2m
It was a sub-par start to the week in Lagos as turnover amounted to $20.2m with a few crosses in GTB $ (7.67m), Flour Mills ($3.67m), Oando ($1.26m) and DangCem ($1.19m) driving proceedings. Banks closed the day slightly lower with the sector falling -0.19% thanks Zenith (-2.29%) and UBA (-0.56%). Consumers (+0.02%) were bascially flat with Dangote Sugar (+1.45%) the best perfromer. Market heavyweight DangCem closed the day -0.64% lower.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.16%, USD 721k
The market opened the week on a quiet note, as turnover was sluggish. Delta, Econet and Innscor were the only counters to make a significant contribution today. Delta traded 191,790 shares to close unchanged at 111c, while Econet and Innscor traded 31,638 and 458,624 shares, closing flat at 54c and 60c respectively.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
11.46 |
+0.88 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
191.25 |
-4.08 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
91.65 |
-1.15 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
32.90 |
-3.50 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.61 |
-1.33 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1789.25 |
-3.14 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
2859.20 |
-3.08 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
690.50 |
-0.10 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.33 |
-3.50 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
585.81 |
-7.46 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.43 |
-3.85 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9.61 |
-5.54 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.94 |
-4.01 |
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