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Movers & Shakers: June 17, 2015
Botswana: DCI +0.12%, USD 140k
Not much going on in the market at the market
Kenya: NSE 20 +0.36%, USD 6.5m
The Market opened the day with a block trade in TPSEA Serena, the counter closed the day up 1.4% at KES36. Foreign participation remains muted as they accounted for 17.2% of total turnover. Top movers included BAT (+4.6%, KES733), ARM (unch, KES72), Safaricom (-0.3%, KES16.05) and TPSEA. Market heavies Equity Bank and KCB shed 0.5% and 0.9% to close at KES46.25 and KES56.50 respectively. Centum released its FY15 results whereby investment income grew 142.2% and PAT rose 160%.
Mauritius: Semdex +0.13%, USD 2.1m
Things continue to soar in port Louise whereby market turnover was mainly geared towards MCB (accounted for 53%). MCB traded a total of 190k shares to close up 1% at Rs211.50. Once again SBM was the most actively traded counter with the stock trading a total of 13.8m shares to closed flat at Rs0.93. Most names closed the session unchanged.
Nigeria: ASI -0.37%, USD 20.6m
The highlight of the day was a massive off-market cross of 11m Seplat shares at N300. In normal trading we saw a chunky cross in Guinness (local). Banksfell by 49bps with the sector generally quiet, although there was some activity in ETI (+77bps, N22.17), GTB (+45bps, N26.97) and Zenith (-1.96%, N19.51). Consumers gained 15bps with action focused on Guinness (-5.28%, N174.80) and Nestle (unch, N850.00). The rest of the market was dull.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.05%, USD 2.6m
TSL and Econet accounted for the bulk of market turnover in the session. The counters contributed $1.6m and $641k to close at 25c (unch) and 43.05c (0.12%) respectively. Other significant contributors included BAT, Innscor and Seedco.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
12.43 |
-6.97 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
198.95 |
-7.79 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
97.90 |
-7.46 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
35.25 |
-9.93 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.98 |
-4.71 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
2247.00 |
-22.87 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
3220.00 |
-13.94 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
720.55 |
-4.27 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
4.39 |
-26.79 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
584.59 |
-7.27 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.62 |
-6.23 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9.68 |
-6.25 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.93 |
-3.87 |
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