Movers & Shakers: June 25, 2015


Botswana: DCI +0.13%, USD 112k

Another slow day on the bourse

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.10%, USD 12.7

The upward momentum continues in the market as foreign participation stood at 72%. Top movers of the day included the likes of Safaricom (+0.3%, KES16.10), EABL (-0.3%, KES308) and KCB (-0.9%, KES55.50) – KCB closed at its all year low. The top movers accounted for 61% of total market activity.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.19%, USD 1.4m

Indices continue to close strong as total market turnover was mainly geared towards MCB - accounted 74.4% of total turnover. The counter closed up 0.3% at Rs218 on the back of 174k shares traded. SBM closed the session flat at Rs0.91 after 6.1m shares were exchanged in the name.

Nigeria: ASI -0.44%, USD 26.4m

Another day, and yet another dull day in Lagos with just 1 or 2 crosses livening up proceedings. Unilever was again the most traded stock as the international company continues to buy stock in the open market. Banks fell by 1.09% with all Tier 1 names closing in the red. Activity was centered in GTB (-18bps, N27.00) and Zenith (-2.01%, N19.50). Consumers fell by 36bps with activity mainly in NB (+1bp, N150.00) and Nestle (+2bps, N850.25). There was also a couple of crosses in Wapco (+5bps, N100.05).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.99%, USD 75k

Not much going at the moment.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.05

-4.04

Nigeria

NGN

198.85

-7.74

Kenya

KES

98.63

-8.14

Mauritius

MUR

35.17

-9.74

Botswana

BWP

9.83

-3.33

Tanzania

TZS

2285.00

-24.16

Uganda

UGX

3275.00

-15.39

Rwanda

RWF

719.00

-4.06

Ghana

GHS

4.39

-26.81

BRVM

XOF

588.18

-7.84

Egypt

EGP

7.61

-6.12

Morocco

MAD

9.69

-6.39

Tunisia

TND

1.93

-3.86

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