Movers & Shakers: July 14, 2015


Botswana: DCI +0.20%, USD 733k

Not a bad day in Gaborone (relatively speaking) as turnover amounted to $733k thanks to Turnstar (2.6m shares).

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.67%, USD 5.4m

Not much on the go in Nairobi today as turnover amounted to $5.4m with foreigners dominating proceedings. Safcom continued to come under pressure from foreign sellers as the telco fell -0.6% on 16.8m shares. EABL (-1.4%) also came under pressure from foreigners as 371k shares traded in the brewer. The two major banks were rather quiet as 427k shares traded in EQBNK while 306k shares traded in KNCB.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.14%, USD 1.3m

A better day in Port Louis but still nothing to write home about as turnover increased to $1.3m thanks to some action in NMH (750k shares) and MCBG (58k shares) while SBMH was rather quiet (8.9m shares).

Nigeria: ASI -0.81%, USD 22.2m

A rather average day from an activity point of view in Lagos as turnover amounted to $22.2m with some crosses in Zenith ($10.49m), NB ($4.55m) and DangCem ($2.26m). Banks closed the day lower with the sector falling -1.22% thanks to Access (-3.97%), GTB (-1.53%) and FBNH (-1.52%). Consumers (-0.82%) also closed the day lower with Dangote Flour (-5.00%), Dangote Sugar (-4.94%) and Flour Mills (-4.86%) dragging the sector lower.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.17%, USD 1.25m

Not a bad day in Harare as turnover amounted to $1.25m thanks to crosses in African Sun ($757k), Econet ($213k) and Delta ($196k) while the market continues to fall as the Industrial Index fell -0.17%.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.35

-6.33

Nigeria

NGN

199.90

-7.77

Kenya

KES

101.53

-10.77

Mauritius

MUR

35.44

-10.41

Botswana

BWP

9.95

-4.38

Tanzania

TZS

2030.00

-14.63

Uganda

UGX

3310.00

-16.28

Rwanda

RWF

724.17

-4.75

Ghana

GHS

3.50

-8.07

BRVM

XOF

598.20

-9.39

Egypt

EGP

7.82

-8.64

Morocco

MAD

9.81

-7.45

Tunisia

TND

1.96

-4.94

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