Centum continued to rally, after releasing good FY15 results, to close up 1.6% at KES65.50. Other movers included Safaricom (unch, KES16.05), EABL (unch, KES315) and KCB (unch, KES56.50) whilst the laggards included the likes of Britam (-3.6%, KES20.25), NMG (-2.8%, KES175) and B.O.C (-2.2%, KES134). Foreign participation continues to improve as they accounted for 73.60% of total sales.
MCB rallied to reach its YTD high of Rs216.50 (+0.7%) after the counter traded a total of 149.6k shares. SBM remains the most actively traded counter on the bourse after trading a total of 5.9m shares to close unchanged (yet again) at Rs0.93.
Yet another day characterized by crosses in a few names with Zenith ($11.09m), GSK ($1.67m) and Access ($1.51m) dominating proceedings with the rest of the market very quiet as total turnover amounted to $24.3m. Banks closed the day lower with the sector falling -0.42% thanks to losses in FBNH (-4.76%) and ETI (-2.22%). Consumers (-1.18%) were also under pressure with Guinness (-5.30%), Dangote Flour (-4.91%) and NB (-1.32%) dragging the sector lower.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Turnover remains sluggish as most counters registered paltry trades. Econet was the best performing counter despite its soft close at 43c (-0.12%).
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
South Africa |
ZAR |
12.18 |
-5.03 |
Nigeria |
NGN |
193.90 |
-7.77 |
Kenya |
KES |
93.55 |
-8.07 |
Mauritius |
MUR |
35.15 |
-9.68 |
Botswana |
BWP |
9.87 |
-3.66 |
Tanzania |
TZS |
2285.00 |
-24.16 |
Uganda |
UGX |
3285.00 |
-15.65 |
Rwanda |
RWF |
734.96 |
-6.14 |
Ghana |
GHS |
4.36 |
-26.29 |
BRVM |
XOF |
578.21 |
-6.25 |
Egypt |
EGP |
7.63 |
-6.27 |
Morocco |
MAD |
9.62 |
-5.74 |
Tunisia |
TND |
1.92 |
-3.28 |